{"id":21152,"date":"2024-03-03T05:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T00:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21152"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:43:25","slug":"obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Obesity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Obesity<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Obesity is defined by\u00a0excess body fat (adipose tissue) that may impair health.<\/li>\n<li>It is a long-term (chronic) health condition that progresses over time.<\/li>\n<li>Causes:\n<ul>\n<li>Obesity is the result of an\u00a0imbalance between daily energy intake\u00a0and\u00a0energy expenditure,\u00a0resulting in excessive weight gain.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0multifactorial disease caused by a myriad of\u00a0genetic, cultural, and societal factors.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Various genetic studies have shown that obesity is\u00a0extremely heritable, with numerous genes identified with adiposity and weight gain.<\/li>\n<li>Other causes of obesity\u00a0include reduced physical activity, insomnia,\u00a0endocrine disorders,\u00a0medications, the accessibility and consumption of excess carbohydrates and\u00a0high-sugar foods, and decreased energy metabolism.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Healthcare providers commonly\u00a0use the Body Mass Index (BMI) to define obesity in the general population.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0BMI over 25 is considered overweight, and over 30 is obese.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Obesity is\u00a0associated with cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance, causing\u00a0diabetes, stroke, gallstones,\u00a0fatty liver, hypoventilation syndrome, sleep apnea,\u00a0and cancers.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0second-most common cause of preventable death after smoking.<\/li>\n<li>Obesity\u00a0needs multiprong treatment\u00a0strategies and may\u00a0require lifelong treatment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Body Mass Index (BMI)?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0person\u2019s weight in kilograms\u00a0divided by the square of their height in meters. For example, a BMI of 25 means 25 kg\/m2.<\/li>\n<li>For most adults, an\u00a0ideal BMI is in the 18.5 to 24.9 range.<\/li>\n<li>A high BMI\u00a0can indicate high body fatness.<\/li>\n<li>BMI screens for weight categories that may lead to health problems, but it does not diagnose the body fatness or health of an individual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is adipose tissue?<\/h3>\n<p>Adipose tissue, otherwise known as body fat, is a connective tissue that extends throughout your body. It\u2019s found under your skin (subcutaneous fat), between your internal organs (visceral fat) and even in the inner cavities of bones (bone marrow adipose tissue).Adipose tissue contains nerve cells and blood vessels and communicates through hormone signals with other organs throughout your body. It has several important functions in regulating whole-body health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/lifestyle\/health\/global-malnourishment-1-in-8-people-are-obese-101709290549657.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Global malnourishment: 1 in 8 people are obese<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity is defined by excess body fat (adipose tissue) that may impair health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}