Obesity in America

One of the biggest problem

A spectacular increase

in obesity in the U.S.A.

VocabularyCauses and Consequences

Calorie: It is defined as a unit of energy supplied by food. Whether you are eating carbohydrates, fats, sugars, or proteins, all of them contain calories.

Plague: Any large scale calamity.

Overweight: The property of excessive fatness.

Behaviour: Manner of acting or conducing yourself.

Steroids: Any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings; many have important physiological effects

BMI: Body Mass Index.

Height: Distance from the base on something to the top.

Misleading: Tending to deceive either deliberately or inadvertently.

Fatness: Excess bodily weight.

The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity: Reports of the Surgeon General on the adverse health consequences of smoking, nutrition, violence, HIV/AIDS,...

The Bardet–Biedl syndrome: It is a ciliopathic human genetic disorder that produces many effects and affects many body systems.

Prader-Willi syndrome: It is a very rare genetic disorder in which seven genes (or some subset thereof) on chromosome 15 are deleted or unexpressed on the paternal chromosome.

Calculate your B.M.I

B.M.I = mass (kg)

(height (m))²

Medical costs of obesity-relatedconditions to society

VocabularyMedical Costs

Type II diabetes: Diabetes mellitus type 2 or type 2 diabetes (formerly called non -insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), or adult-onset diabetes) is a disorder that is characterized by high blood glucose in the context of insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency. Diabetes mellitus type 1 is a form of diabetes mellitus that results from autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.

Hypertension: Hypertension is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure is elevated. It is also referred to as high blood pressure or shortened to HT, HTN or HPN. The word "hypertension", by itself, normally refers to systemic, arterial hypertension.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.

Endometrial cancer: Endometrial cancer refers to several types of malignancy which arise from the endometrium, or lining of the uterus.

Dyslipidemia: Dyslipidemia is a disruption in the amount of lipids in the blood.

Triglycerides: Triglyceride (more properly known as triacylglycerol, TAG or triacylglyceride) is a glyceride in which the glycerol is esterified with three fatty acids. It is the main constituent of vegetable oil and animal fats.

Stroke: A stroke (sometimes called a cerebrovascular accident (CVA)) is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain, caused by a blocked or burst blood vessel.

Gallbladder: The gallbladder (or cholecyst or gall bladder) is a small non-vital organ that aids in the digestive process and stores bile produced in the liver.

Osteoarthritis : Osteoarthritis (OA, also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease), is a group of diseases and mechanical abnormalities involving degradation of joints, including articular cartilage and the subchondral bone next to it.

Cholecystitis : Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gall bladder.

Cholelithiasis: Cholelithiasis is the presence of stones in the gallbladder or bile ducts: chole- means "bile", lithia means "stone", and -sis means "process".

Gout: Gout is a medical condition that usually presents with recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis (red, tender, hot, swollen joint).

National Women’s Health Resource Center: HealthyWomen is an American non-profit organization which seeks to provide women with in-depth, medical-organization-sanctioned information on a wide range issues important to women's health and to increase awareness of those issues via education and advocacy. It was founded as the National Women's Health Resource Center in 1988 by Dr. Violet Bowen-Hugh.

An inch: An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ – a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units.

Visceral fat: Visceral fat or abdominal fat also known as organ fat or intra-ted inside the abdominal cavity, packed in between internal organs and torso.

The preventable morbidity: The ability of being unhealthful and generally bad for you capable of being prevented.

VocabularyAnti-obesity Efforts

Vending machine: A machine from which you can buy soft drinks, sweets etc by inserting coins into it.

Athletic tracks: Places to run and do athletics.

To consider: To think about.