Obesity Causes Clinical Health Risks
Posted on December 1, 2023
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) obesity over the last 50 years has been on the rise with studies showing that obesity and the clinical risks it causes are worsening. Since 2016, nearly 2 billion adults over the age of 18 worldwide were considered overweight with 650 million of them being morbidly obese with a body mass index (BMI) of 40% or higher with a healthy range BMI measuring around 18% to 25%. In today’s social media culture, obesity acceptance is considered body positivity and has gone mainstream proclaiming fat acceptance. However, the risk factors associated with being...