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Defining Obesity - Introduction
Obesity is defined as an excess of body fat or adipose tissue in relation to lean body mass or excess weight of 20% greater than ideal body weight in men and 30% greater in women. Measuring the exact amount of a person?s body fat is not easy.
It develops when the number of calories taken in is greater than the number burnt up during daily activity. And it does not take many extra calories to put on weight.
Ten extra calories taken each day will lead, to a weight gain of one kilogram in a year's time.
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