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Being underweight is an established [21] risk factor for osteoporosis, even for young people. This is seen in individuals suffering from relative energy deficiency in sport , formerly known as female athlete triad: when disordered eating or excessive exercise cause amenorrhea, hormone changes during ovulation leads to loss of bone mineral density.
This is a list of the States of India ranked in order of percentage of people having a Body Mass Index lower than normal. The information is based on the Demographic & Health Survey of 2005–06 for India .
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Rank Country Percentage of adults with obesity (BMI ≥ 30) 1 Tonga: 70.54 2 Nauru: 70.18 3 Tuvalu: 63.93 4 Samoa: 61.24 5 The Bahamas: 47.61 6 Marshall Islands: 47.29
People with two copies of the FTO gene (fat mass and obesity associated gene) have been found on average to weigh 3–4 kg more and have a 1.67-fold greater risk of obesity compared with those without the risk allele. [140] The differences in BMI between people that are due to genetics varies depending on the population examined from 6% to 85% ...
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.
In 2015, 795 million people (about one in ten people on earth) had undernutrition. [ 9 ] [ 42 ] It is estimated that between 691 and 783 million people in the world faced hunger in 2022. [ 43 ] According to UNICEF, 2.4 billion people were moderately or severely food insecure in 2022, 391 million more than in 2019.
Obesity and BMI An obese male with a body mass index of 53 kg/m 2: weight 182 kg (400 lb), height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in). Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect on health. [1]