Weight Management Risk Factors

[Gourav]

Risk by age. People of any age are in obesity risk. More children and adolescents have overweight in the United States that never before. Increasing of weight it is common with the age, and the addition of near 10 pounds of weight to a normal base with time is not harmful. The increase of typical weight of the greater American adults of 50 years, nevertheless, is worrisome. At the age of 55 years, the American average has added almost 40 fat pounds in the course of the adult age. This condition is agravated by the fact that muscles and diminution of the bony mass with the age.
Risk by sex. In the men, the IMC tend to increase until the 50 years and soon it becomes stabilized. In the women, the weight tends to increase until the 70 years before plateaus. There are three periods of high risk for the increase of weight in women:
First it is in the beginning of the menstruation, specially if it is early.
The second is after the pregnancy, with greater risk for the women who already have overweight.
Finally, many women recover the weight after the menopause.
These results are significant because they can allow the women sometimes white of high risk, and therefore to prevent the increase of unnecessary weight.
Risk by the Economic Group. The obesity is prevalent in the economic groups. The women of low income and their families tend to have less fruits and vegetables and are taking more calories to the day that the women with greater income. Nevertheless, the obesity is increasing in the young adults with university education, as well as in other groups.
Ethnic groups. Between the ethnic groups in general, the Afro-American women have more overweight than the caucasian women are, but the Afro-American men are less obese than the men of white race are. Hispanic men and women tend even though more than the caucasians.
US. Regions. At regional level, the prevalence of the obesity is lowest in the western states and greater one in the South.

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