What Is Obesity? | Obesity

I think it's important to realize that Obesity is a disease. It's a lifelong progressive disease of excess fat storage. And obesity is defined as being about 30 percent over your ideal body weight or about 100 pounds overweight.

In order to figure out what your ideal body weight is, you can look it up online or you can try to figure it out by calculating it. For women, you start at 100 pounds and for every inch over five feet tall, you add five pounds. For men, it starts at a 110 ponds and for every inch over five feet tall, you add six pounds. Now these numbers are going to give you the low end of what your ideal body weight should be.

Another way to figure out if you're obese is to calculate your B-M-I. B-M-I refers to Body Mass Index and it's a number that's calculated by dividing your weight by your height. This isn't a number you're going to be able to figure out in your head so again, you can look it up and plug in your height and your weight and it will give you a number.

If you B-M-I is 30 or greater, you're considered to be obese. If the number is 40 or greater, that's morbid obesity. Obesity has recently surpassed smoking as being the number one cause of preventable death. It is an epidemic in the United States and something that we really need to do something about.

[FaysalAndary]

That's because they have it wrong in the video. It is weight divided by squared height, not just height. Also, make sure to use metric units, that's kilogram and meters.
Your BMI is 76.2k/1.78^2= 24.0, which is average and perfectly healthy. Don't worry

[thisisgame]

Ok thanks, I knew something was wrong

[shawnk]

yeah thats why BMI doesnt work. BMI counts average muscle mass not increased so it probably doesnt work if you're buff

[TheUubert]

what if you are a bodybuilder.
because of all your muscle you'll have a high BMI but that doesnt mean that you are obese.

[TheItzPromo]

Howcast uploads vids every minute. Really? It's not even popular anymore

[Kraken_Dawn]

Im 5'0 and my BMI is 34.8 = 180lbs, but I have been working out since feb when I found out I was Obese, I have lost so much fat but my weight is still the same, can someone please help me figure that out? Im still alittle porky but I am 4 jean sizes smaller then the start of the year, Any help here?

[PerfectBlade]

It means fat. I solved the case! Nobel prize for me!

[Nihilianth]

UUUGHH!!! BMI? Really? REALLY!? Come on! You gotta be joking. Seriously, BMI is a load of BS. Why are these so-called "experts" still propagating the value of BMI? There are two extremely important factors BMI does not take into account:

1. Muscle mass
2. Bone density

BMI is supposed to be for the "average" person, so obviously body-builders have to completely ignore is. However, those who are not body-builder, the average person, will vary in the density of their skeletal structure. Ignore BM