Overweight, the Glossary
Being overweight is having more body fat than is optimally healthy.[1]
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- Human body weight
Abdominal obesity
Abdominal obesity, also known as central obesity and truncal obesity, is the human condition of an excessive concentration of visceral fat around the stomach and abdomen to such an extent that it is likely to harm its bearer's health.
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Adipose tissue
Adipose tissue (also known as body fat or simply fat) is a loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes.
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Alcoholism
Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.
Azoospermia
Azoospermia is the medical condition of a man whose semen contains no sperm.
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Big Beautiful Woman
"Big Beautiful Woman" (commonly abbreviated as BBW) is a positive (non-pejorative) term for an overweight woman.
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Binge eating disorder
Binge eating disorder (BED) is an eating disorder characterized by frequent and recurrent binge eating episodes with associated negative psychological and social problems, but without the compensatory behaviors common to bulimia nervosa, OSFED, or the binge-purge subtype of anorexia nervosa.
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Bioelectrical impedance analysis
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a method for estimating body composition, in particular body fat and muscle mass, where a weak electric current flows through the body, and the voltage is measured in order to calculate impedance (resistance and reactance) of the body.
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Body image
Body image is a person's thoughts, feelings and perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body.
Body mass index
Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person. Overweight and Body mass index are human body weight.
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Body positivity
Body positivity is a social movement that promotes a positive view of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities.
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Body shaming
Body shaming is the action or inaction of subjecting someone to humiliation and criticism for their bodily features.
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Body shape
Human body shape is a complex phenomenon with sophisticated detail and function.
Calipers
Caliper(s) or calliper(s) are an instrument used to measure the dimensions of an object or hole; namely, the length, width, thickness, diameter or depth of an object or hole.
Calorie
The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat.
Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
Classification of obesity
Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect on health.
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Confidence
Confidence is the feeling of belief or trust that a person or thing is reliable.
Constitution type
Constitution type or body type can refer to a number of attempts to classify human body shapes.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Diet (nutrition)
In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.
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Dietary energy supply
The dietary energy supply is the food available for human consumption, usually expressed in kilocalories or kilojoules per person per day.
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Dieting
Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity.
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, or DEXA) is a means of measuring bone mineral density (BMD) using spectral imaging.
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Eating disorder
An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating behaviors that adversely affect a person's physical or mental health.
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Electrical resistance and conductance
The electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current.
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Endocrinology
Endocrinology (from endocrine + -ology) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones.
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Exercise
Exercise is physical activity that enhances or maintains fitness and overall health.
Fat
In nutrition, biology, and chemistry, fat usually means any ester of fatty acids, or a mixture of such compounds, most commonly those that occur in living beings or in food.
Fat acceptance movement
The fat acceptance movement (also known by various other names, such as fat pride, fat empowerment, fat liberation, and fat activism) is a social movement which seeks to eliminate the social stigma of obesity.
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Fluid replacement
Fluid replacement or fluid resuscitation is the medical practice of replenishing bodily fluid lost through sweating, bleeding, fluid shifts or other pathologic processes.
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Genetic predisposition
A genetic predisposition is a genetic characteristic which influences the possible phenotypic development of an individual organism within a species or population under the influence of environmental conditions.
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Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
Hormone
A hormone (from the Greek participle ὁρμῶν, "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs or tissues by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior.
Hydrostatic equilibrium
In fluid mechanics, hydrostatic equilibrium (hydrostatic balance, hydrostasy) is the condition of a fluid or plastic solid at rest, which occurs when external forces, such as gravity, are balanced by a pressure-gradient force.
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Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism (also called underactive thyroid, low thyroid or hypothyreosis) is a disorder of the endocrine system in which the thyroid gland does not produce enough thyroid hormones.
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Immune system
The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.
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JAMA
JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association.
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed journal of epidemiology.
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Katherine Flegal
Katherine Mayhew Flegal is an American epidemiologist and senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
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Lipid
Lipids are a broad group of organic compounds which include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others.
Live Science
Live Science is a science news website.
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Malnutrition
Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems.
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Mental health
Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior.
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A metabolic disorder is a disorder that negatively alters the body's processing and distribution of macronutrients, such as proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
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Mortality rate
Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
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Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
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Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health. Overweight and Obesity are human body weight.
Obesity Canada
Obesity Canada - Obésité Canada (OC), formerly known as the Canadian Obesity Network - Réseau canadien en obésité (CON-RCO), is a Canadian charitable organization.
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Olanzapine
Olanzapine, sold under the brand name Zyprexa among others, is an atypical antipsychotic primarily used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Oligospermia
Terms oligospermia, oligozoospermia, and low sperm count refer to semen with a low concentration of sperm and is a common finding in male infertility.
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Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a twelve-step program founded by Rozanne S. Its first meeting was held in Hollywood, California, USA on January 19, 1960, after Rozanne attended a Gamblers Anonymous meeting and realized that the Twelve Steps could potentially help her with her own addictive behaviors relating to food.
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Overeating
Overeating occurs when an individual consumes more calories in relation to the energy that is expended via physical activity or expelled via excretion, leading to weight gain and often obesity.
Pearson correlation coefficient
In statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) is a correlation coefficient that measures linear correlation between two sets of data.
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Physical activity
Physical activity is defined as any voluntary bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure.
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Physical attractiveness
Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful.
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Psychoactive drug
A psychoactive drug, mind-altering drug, or consciousness-altering drug is a chemical substance that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior.
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Reproductive system
The reproductive system of an organism, also known as the genital system, is the biological system made up of all the anatomical organs involved in sexual reproduction.
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Sedentary lifestyle
Sedentary lifestyle is a lifestyle type, in which one is physically inactive and does little or no physical movement and/or exercise.
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Shock absorber
A shock absorber or damper is a mechanical or hydraulic device designed to absorb and damp shock impulses.
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Sleep and weight
Sleep and weight is the association between the amount of sleep an individual obtains and the weight of that individual.
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Smoking
Smoking is a practice in which a substance is combusted and the resulting smoke is typically inhaled to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream of a person.
Smoking cessation
Smoking cessation, usually called quitting smoking or stopping smoking, is the process of discontinuing tobacco smoking.
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Social stigma of obesity is bias or discriminatory behaviors targeted at overweight and obese individuals because of their weight and a high body fat percentage.
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Stimulant
Stimulants (also known as central nervous system stimulants, or psychostimulants, or colloquially as uppers) are a class of drugs that increase the activity of the brain.
Stress (biology)
Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.
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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) is a monthly peer-reviewed biomedical journal in the fields of dietetics and clinical nutrition.
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The Lancet
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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Thermal insulation
Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e., the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.
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Thermoregulation
Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.
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Tirzepatide
Tirzepatide is an antidiabetic medication used for the treatment of typenbsp2 diabetes and for weight loss.
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Transtheoretical model
The transtheoretical model of behavior change is an integrative theory of therapy that assesses an individual's readiness to act on a new healthier behavior, and provides strategies, or processes of change to guide the individual.
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Type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that originates when cells that make insulin (beta cells) are destroyed by the immune system.
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Type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes (T2D), formerly known as adult-onset diabetes, is a form of diabetes mellitus that is characterized by high blood sugar, insulin resistance, and relative lack of insulin.
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Underweight
An underweight person is a person whose body weight is considered too low to be healthy. Overweight and underweight are human body weight.
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Walter Willett
Walter C. Willett (born June 20, 1945) is an American physician and nutrition researcher.
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Weighing scale
A scale or balance is a device used to measure weight or mass.
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Weight cycling
Weight cycling, also known as yo-yo dieting, is the repeated loss and gain of weight, resembling the up-down motion of a yo-yo.
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Weight loss
Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a reduction of the total body mass, by a mean loss of fluid, body fat (adipose tissue), or lean mass (namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon, and other connective tissue). Overweight and Weight loss are human body weight.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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See also
Human body weight
- Anthropometric history
- Birth weight
- Body adiposity index
- Body mass index
- Body shape index
- Bodyweight exercise
- Corpulence index
- Fat men's club
- Freshman 15
- Gestational weight gain
- History of anthropometry
- Human body weight
- Hyperalimentation
- Indian states ranking by underweight people
- Institute of Medicine Equation
- Lean body mass
- Low birth weight
- Obesity
- Overweight
- Relative Fat Mass
- Set point theory
- Tulabhara
- Underweight
- Weight classes
- Weight cutting
- Weight gain
- Weight loss
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overweight
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