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Newguest Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Prevalence of obesity

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Over the past 25 years, the prevalence of obesity in the United States has increased by more than 75 percent.

--- I'm not sure, does it say that obesity in the US is now 75% more popular/present/or maybe "visible" than it was 25 years ago?
  

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It says that it is 75% more common. A person has traditionally been considered to be obese if they are more than 20 percent over their ideal weight. That ideal weight must take into account the person's height, age, ***, and build.

— Mister Micawber

  • It says that it is 75% more common.
  • A person has traditionally been considered to be obese if they are more than 20 percent over their ideal weight.
  • That ideal weight must take into account the person's height, age, ***, and build.
  • Obesity has been more precisely defined by the National Institutes of Health (the NIH) as a BMI of 30 and above.
  • ) The BMI (body mass index), a key index for relating body weight to height, is a person's weight in kilograms (kg) divided by their height in meters (m) squared.
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It says that it is 75% more common.

A person has traditionally been considered to be obese if they are more than 20 percent over their ideal weight. That ideal weight must take into account the person's height, age, ***, and build. Obesity has been more precisely defined by the National Institutes of Health (the NIH) as a BMI of 30 and above. (A BMI of 30 is about 30 pounds overweight.
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