Is your weight more than your ideal body weight and when you have computed your body mass index (BMI), it’s more than 40kg/m2 ? If your BMI is more than 30 kg/m2 , then you are obese! Obesity is associated with many illness and is said to be the number 2 leading cause of death in [...]
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Beat Up Obesity
June 14th, 2008
Julie Labitag In one of our lessons in Medical-Surgical Nursing, we talked about care of client with obesity. Obesity is a condition in which there is an excess of adipose tissue. There are 2 types of obesity – upper body obesity and lower body obesity.
To determine whether you are obese or not, th following are [...]




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