ISSN: 2044-9038 (Print) 2044-9046 (Electronic)

Clinical Practice

Obesity-Scholarly-Peer-review Journal

Obesity is an outbreak in the United States. This situation puts people at a better prospect for serious diseases, like type 2 diabetes, heart condition, and cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Management and Prevention (CDC), it’s assessed that in 2015–2016, 93.3 million (39.8 percent) American adults and 13.7 million (18.5 percent) American children and teens are clinically obese. Obesity is explained as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more. BMI may be a calculation that takes a person’s weight and height under examination. However, BMI does have some restrictions. According to the CDC, “factors like age, sex, ethnicity, and muscle mass can influence the connection between BMI and body fat. Also, BMI doesn’t distinguish between excess fat, muscle, or bone mass, nor does it provide any suggestion of the distribution of fat among individuals.” Despite these limitations, BMI continues to be widely worked obesity is defined as having a BMI of 30 or more. Body mass index may be a rough estimation of a person’s weight in reference to their height.  

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