Sentences with phrase «as obese»

Oscar for Resilience: Precious: It would be impossible to give this award to any other film given the extent of adversity faced by Precious, a 16 - year - old who repeatedly «bounces back» from challenges ranging from the trials of day - to - day living as an obese, impoverished African - American adolescent to misfortune, neglect, abuse, and trauma.

In one experiment run by Wharton scientists, men and women rated digital resumes that included photographs of non-obese people and digitally altered photographs of those same people as obese.

BMI - for - age percentile was used to categorize children by weight status (children with BMI - for - age ≥ 95th percentile were classified as obese).

The problem of obesity beyond a certain limit asks for a higher premium as the obese person is more exposed to the risks of a variety of diseases like heart problem, diabetes, blood pressure etc..

These «doctor approved» programs tend to be pretty strict and are typically reserved for those who have been clinically diagnosed as obese or have been diagnosed with a weight - related medical problem (s).

Thanks god, obesity or overweight is not considered to be a condition that would stop an insurer to give you a cover but as an obese, sure there's a price to pay.

If you weigh more than 202 pounds at 5» 9 ″, you would be classified as obese.

With 69 % of the US adult population classified as overweight, including 35 % as obese this is one of the most important specializations.

«I have never seen anything quite like this before — the individuals weren't as obese as this person was but I have seen it where one parent has questioned the other's dietary habits and what they were passing on to the children.

Interestingly, the same commenter whom I quoted at the beginning and who self - identifies as obese agrees with Rubino that obesity is not a lifestyle problem — «Who in their right mind would choose to make their daily life uncomfortable and embarrassing?

Many people — quite likely most — will eventually accommodate themselves to the inevitability of climate change, even as obese people accommodate themselves to limits on their mobility and health.

Using the 9 - point scoring system, dogs and cats are diagnosed as obese when they reach a body - condition score that is greater than 7.

Unusual lumps and bumps in obese pets are common as obese animals are more susceptible to benign tumors resulting from a mass of fat cells that can grow to a painful size.

Overweight dogs qualify as obese if they have a thick layer of fat over the ribs, spine and tail base.

So all told, obese rabbits can face the same kinds of problems as obese humans, except that we don't clean our butts the same way rabbits do.

Using the 9 - point scoring system, felines and canines are diagnosed as obese when they reach a body - condition score that is greater than 7.

The study found 24.9 percent of all cats were classified as obese and 21.4 percent of all dogs were obese in 2011.

8.6 % of all adult dogs were classified as obese.

The group began conducting nationwide veterinary surveys in 2007 and has seen a steady increase in the percentage of pets classified as obese or at least 30 % above normal body weight.

The group conducted the National Pet Obesity Awareness Day study in October 2007 and found 43 % of all dogs and 53 % of all cats were classified as overweight or obese by a veterinary healthcare provider; 10 % of all dogs and 19 % of all cats were classified as obese.

Obesity may also be related to bladder cancer, as obese felines are more likely to be affected by a bladder tumor.

Low - carbohydrate, high - protein diets may help prevent diabetes in cats at risk such as obese cats or lean cats with underlying low insulin sensitivity.

There was a survey conducted by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention which discovered that 55 % of cats and 53 % of the adult dogs had been classified as obese or overweight by their vets.

Virginia ranks 12th, with 29 percent of its population classified as obese.

Further results showed that pets fed on table scraps were more likely to be classed as obese, while those that received snacks and treats were significantly more likely to be overweight.

In fact, the same survey found that among the pets assessed by their vets as obese, nearly 90 percent of their owners assessed their weight as normal.

Anne Bull, national chair of LACA, believes schools face a serious health crisis caused by bad diet with almost 20 per cent of children classed as obese by the time they leave primary school

The government's National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) tells us that in the year 2012/13 33.3 per cent of UK children aged 10 - 11 were overweight, a majority of this figure classed as obese.

The UK currently has the highest rate of childhood obesity in Europe, with 25 per cent of young people being classified as obese or overweight.

«I was called pig and Shamu the whale»: Depressed mother who weighs 616 lbs finds new confidence as an obese pin - up girl.

There are more adults in the world classified as obese than underweight.

34 % of American adults are classified as obese and 60 % of American adults are struggling with weight loss — are you one of them?

Studies show that approximately one - third of the U.S. population is classified as obese and over two - thirds are significantly overweight.

Researchers define a BMI of 25 to < 30 as overweight and BMI ≥ 30 as obese.

In a nutshell A thin unfit person is twice as likely to die as an obese fit person.

A study published in the International Journal of Obesity showed that nearly half of people diagnosed as obese using BMI measurements are actually healthy, leading some to believe that there is no value of a BMI measurement at all, except for life insurance policies to increase premiums.

So a skinny person eating a low carb diet can have the same level of fat in their blood as obese people do.

If a bodybuilder measured their BMI, they would show up as obese.

Women classified as obese or severely obese stood a significantly higher risk of death.

Jeers: Docs ignore kids obesity One - third of American children have weight problems, but only one in three of them is diagnosed as obese or overweight.

At that time, I suffered from depression, acne, IBS, allergies, asthma, aches, and pains, and was a few pounds away from being classified as obese.

In excess of 15 % of American children between the ages 6 and 19 are classified as obese.

Out of the 27 individuals that were assessed in this study, 18 had type 2 diabetes with a duration of the condition for less than 15 years, all within the range group of 25 to 65 years and a body mass index marking them as obese.

BETHESDA, Md. (July 24, 2012)-- Childhood obesity has nearly tripled in the past three decades, and by 2009, 17 percent of those 2 - 19 years of age were classified as obese.

The authors classified participants as obese if their BMIs were equal to or greater than 30.

The number of people who are classified as obese has rocketed from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to an analysis of body mass index (BMI) trends.

Women with a BMI ranging from 30 to 44.9 were classified as obese, while those with a BMI of 29.9 were considered non-obese.

The World Health Organization estimates that 10 percent of adults worldwide and 42 million children under the age of 5 now qualify as obese.

The review found that 19.3 percent of the patients diagnosed with a depressive disorder reported lower back pain, as did 16.75 percent of patients diagnosed as obese (a body mass index, or BMI, > 30kg / m ²), 16.53 percent of the patients diagnosed with nicotine dependence, and 14.66 percent with reported alcohol abuse.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / GOSPHOTODESIGN NEW YORK CITY — More than 30 million of the Americans classified as obese or extremely obese might benefit from surgery that reconstructs the stomach to accommodate less food.