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Term Paper: Obesity in America (Causes and Repercussions)

In order for someone to be classified as overweight, they must have a body mass index

(BMI) between 25 and 29.9. In order to be classified as obese, it would be a BMI of 30 or higher.
Being overweight and being obese are both dangerous conditions that are likely to lead to serious

health problems, however, severe clinical obesity like morbid or malignant obesity, carries greater

risks of morbidity and premature mortality than simply being overweight does.

In the 1980's, what a person weighed was essentially their own concern. However, this was

prior to the emergence of statistics which conveyed the startling fact that 65 percent of adult

Americans are overweight, and 17 percent of American children and teens are also overweight or

obese.


Obesity is definitely becoming a serious epidemic in the United States, and has many public

health...

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Title: Obesity
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