An increasing interest in a healthy lifestyle raises questions about optimal body weight.
Evidently, it should be clearly discriminated between the standardised “normal” body weight …

Traditional diagnosis and understanding of the pathophysiology of obesity are based on
excessive fat storage due to a chronically positive energy balance characterized by body …

Obesity must be considered a real pathology. In the world wide, obesity represent one of the
major public health issue associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Overweight or …

Background The body mass index (BMI) is commonly used as a surrogate marker for
adiposity. However, the BMI indicates weight-for-height without considering differences in …

Background Contested evidence suggests that obesity confers no risk to health in people
who have a healthy lifestyle, particularly if there are no metabolic complications of obesity …

The obesity paradox refers to extant evidence showing that obesity in older subjects or in
patients with several chronic diseases may be protective and associated with decreased …

Abstract In 2013, the American Medical Association recognized obesity as a disease, of
growing scientific, social, and political interest. In 2016 in the United States, prevalence rates …

Obesity is most commonly defined as a BMI of over 30 kg/m2. Typical classification is into
categories of Class I (BMI> 30 kg/m2), Class II (BMI equal to or over 35 kg/m2) and Class III …

For more than a decade, researchers in the field of obesity have debated the value of the
BMI as the most common and convenient index for classifying the obese condition. The …

Aims/hypothesis People with obesity and a normal metabolic profile are sometimes referred
to as having 'metabolically healthy obesity'(MHO). However, whether this group of …