Overweight FACTS: What is Overweight?

What is Overweight?

The percentage of overweight people is huge and growing quickly. Americans are the most overweight people in the world. Obesity or overweight is measured with a body mass index (BMI). Overweight is defined as weight that exceeds the recommended weight for height by 20%.

Being overweight in North America today has become a source of negative stereotyping and even outright discrimination. Overweight men are 11% less likely to be married than men who are not overweight.

Overweight Facts

Did you know that, the prevalence of overweight is high and that over one-third of all Montana adults are overweight.

Approximately 300,000 U.S. deaths a year currently are associated with overweight.

Overweight children have higher rates of low self-esteem, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, bone and joint problems, and gall bladder disease.4 Adolescent obesity (and high non-HDL cholesterol levels) is an independent risk factor for adult atherosclerosis and also operates by contributing to other risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension.

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