BIOL 233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Network, Atherosclerosis, Insulin Resistance

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Weight cycling: a pattern of losing and regaining weight, over and over again. Bmi: body weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of height (in meters), expressed in unite of kg/m^2. It has become the accepted method for assessing body weight for height. Normal weight: 18. 5kg/m^2 < bmi < 25 kg/m^2. Overweight: 25 kg/m^2 < bmi < 30 kg/m^2. Rates of obesity have risen worldwide, not just in the us over the last several decades. Researchers estimate that genes alone generally account for 50 to 90 %of variations in the amount of stored body fat. Excess calories are always stored as fat, so higher bmi usually corresponds to higher percentages of body fat (with some exceptions for extremely muscular individuals) Explanations for differences in obesity among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups: Americans more likely to become obese if they have low socioeconomic status.

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