Obesity is a disease in which the weight of a person grows due to the increase in the layer of subcutaneous fat. It is important to know that people who are sick with such ailment often suffer from other contributing diseases - diabetes, atherosclerosis , etc. The disease significantly affects the appearance of a person, but how to determine the degree of obesity of a person from completeness. There is a quantity called the body mass index. It is the value of the ratio of height and weight. Expressed in a certain numerical value. There is also a table that determines the degree of obesity and shows whether the body mass index is normal. Calculation of the value is as follows: the mass of the body in kilograms is divided by the amount of growth in square.
How to know the degree of obesity?
Normally, the value of the index in the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity should be from 19 to 25. If the figure obtained comes to these boundaries, respectively, the person is overweight. Regarding the degree, today there are many ways to determine the extent of obesity, but regardless of the stage of the disease, it must be combated. Calculating the degree of obesity is easy, it depends on the index. BMI 30-35 speaks about the first stage, 35-40 - about the second stage. And if the BMI is more than 40 - this is an indicator of the third stage of obesity. There is also another way how to know the degree of obesity by looking at the table as a percentage. If the excess weight is 10-29%, this is an indicator of the first stage of obesity , 30-49% is the second stage, and 50% or more indicates the third stage.
It is important to know that there is simply no ideal system that allows you to make the necessary calculations, because different methods give different results.