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From BBC News: US obesity 'higher than thought'

The obesity problem in the US may be much worse than previously thought, according to researchers.

They said using the Body Mass Index or BMI to determine obesity was underestimating the issue.

Their study, published in the journal PLoS One, said up to 39% of people who were not currently classified as obese actually were.

The authors said "we may be much further behind than we thought" in tackling obesity.

BMI is a simple calculation which combines a person's height and weight to give a score which can be used to diagnose obesity. Somebody with a BMI of 30 or more is classed as obese.

The US Centers for Disease Control says at least one in three Americans are obese.

Many more?

Other ways of diagnosing obesity include looking at how much of the body is made up of fat. A fat percentage of 25% or more for men or 30% or more for women is the threshold for obesity.

One of the researchers Dr Eric Braverman said: "The Body Mass Index is an insensitive measure of obesity, prone to under-diagnosis, while direct fat measurements are superior because they show distribution of body fat."

The team at the New York University School of Medicine and the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, looked at records from 1,393 people who had both their BMI and body fat scores measured.

Their data showed that most of the time the two measures came to the same conclusion. However, they said 539 people in the study - or 39% - were not labelled obese according to BMI, but their fat percentage suggested they were.

They said the disparity was greatest in women and became worse when looking at older groups of women.

"Greater loss of muscle mass in women with age exacerbates the misclassification of BMI," they said.

They propose changing the thresholds for obesity: "A more appropriate cut-point for obesity with BMI is 24 for females and 28 for males."

A BMI of 24 is currently classed as a "normal" weight.

"By our cut-offs, 64.1% or about 99.8 million American women are obese," they said.

It is not the first time BMI has been questioned. A study by the University of Leicester said BMIs needed to be adjusted according to ethnicity.

Last year in the BBC's Scrubbing Up column, nutrition expert Dr Margaret Ashwell advocated using waist-to-height ratio to determine obesity.

She said: "It is a real worry that using BMI alone for screening could miss people who are at risk from central obesity and might also be alarming those whose risk is not as great as it appears from their BMI."

                                    

Is the U.S getting obese? Is it out of control? Or is just another scare story put about by the media. What are your thoughts, does it worry you? What could or should be done about it by the government or by the person.What are the long term implications for the country as a whole if it carried on in this manner? Or do you believe  it's about time the government stopped meddling with the individuals right to decide what they do with their own health and bodies.It's called taking individual responsibility Please join in,I love to hear your views.

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Getting Motivated

Q.I want to lose weight but I don't have the motivation to join a gym and work out 3 or 4 times a week.What do you suggest I should do?

A.There is a whole lot you can do to get yourself motivated and moving.It starts with one small step, a small change in your life style that is realistic and easy to do.This is vital,and is your starting point.Have you ever considered during your lunch hour instead of sitting at your desk go for a brisk walk.Needn't be that long 20-30 minutes thats all.By the end of the month you will start to notice the difference.Because you may not realize it you are excising, and if you get a friend to come along with you all the better! You see what I mean,just one small change that is easily done by you.Another small change that is quick and simple to do is instead of ordering fries with that burger.Stop.What about substituting that burger for a lower calorie alternative instead. I have loads of ideas you could use in my free book which you can download here.You will be eating healthy food instead. Choose the right food groups and you will start to double your weight loss effects with no effort on your part at all.These foods will make your body naturally burn the fat.Why not work smarter not harder that's what I say! Again they are outlined in the book.Now there are two simple and realistic goal ideas anyone can adopt and start losing weight easily.In no time at all you can move it up a level if you wish and join the gym.Good Luck!