The Obesity Epidemic
Health care systems around the globe are beginning to recognise the risk that obesityposes to human health and many programmes are now being put into place in aneffort to reduce the burden of obesity and its related diseases. Current definitions ofobesity are based on the ratio of bodyweight (in kg) and height squared (in m2) andexpressed as body mass index (BMI) with a normal BMI defined as 20–24.9, moderateoverweight between...
