Weight loss has quickly become one of the hottest topics in advertising and popular culture. Obesity plagued 67 percent of non-institutionalized adults over the age of 20 between 2005 and 2006, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
Overweight and obesity are at epidemic proportions, and excess body fat is associated with coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes, pulmonary disease and arthritis. Body composition, or the relative percentage of body weight that is fat or...
Body fat is an essential component of the body's makeup, and healthy women's body weight should be 18 to 25 percent body fat. Excess fat leads to obesity and a range of related health issues such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and type 2...
With regular exercise, obese individuals can experience weight loss and reduced obesity-related health issues. If you are using exercise to fight obesity, consider activities in which you can minimize risk of injury, sustain for at least 20...
If only it were so simple: choosing foods to whittle away fat in the specific places it accumulates on each individual's body. Unfortunately, just as spot reduction is impossible with exercise, there are no foods that magically burn fat on one...
Humans display two types of fat-distribution patterns. The android pattern -- characterized by fat deposited in the abdominal area -- produces central or android-type obesity when such storage is excessive. Increased health risk exists when fat is...
"Normal" body fat percentages for men vary across age and ethnic groups, according to CDC research that used dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans to test body composition. Among a representative sample of American males between ages 8 to...
As of 2010, about 65 percent of Americans are overweight, and about one in three people is clinically obese, according to the website obesity.org . While being overweight is a serious medical problem, the distribution of body fat can significantly...
