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Prejudice of another hue – lest you think I'm without it, I'm not: I can't get over overweight people, or, to be rigorously PC about it, "fatsos" – featured in another excellent Dispatches.
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Thirty five percent of adults aged 20 and over were overweight in 2008 and 11percentt were obese.
According to WHO statistics, 35% of adults aged 20 and over are overweight and 11% are obese (as of 2008), while 8% are living with diabetes.
Previously we reported results from the NHSP showing that a quarter of the population aged 15 years or over was overweight or obese using Asian-specific thresholds.
1 In South Korea, 26% of adults aged 19 years and over were overweight or obese in 1998, specifically 25.1% for men and 26.2% for women.
In 2007 08, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2009) National Health Survey determined that approximately 62% of adults aged 18 and over were overweight or obese [ 6].
In 2008, the WHO estimated that more than 1.4 billion adults aged 20 and over were overweight (a BMI greater than or equal to 25 Kg/M) [ 18].
A child can be malnourished by being undernourished (stunted, underweight) or over-nourished (overweight, obese).
Over-nutrition (overweight and obesity) and under-nutrition (thinness, sever thinness and stunting) do exist simultaneously in different age groups and also genders (Table 1; Figures 2 and 3).This could support that Iranian children aged 10 19 years are facing a double burden of growth disorders.
Overweight condition and obesity were defined according to age and gender, as suggested by Cole et al., assuming BMI over 25 as overweight and over 30 as obesity in adults [ 21].
Good-hearted Tracy: over 50, overweight and in over her head.
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