Overweight, Underweight, and Obesity

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On a daily basis, we can witness individuals with too little or too much body weight. While the latter has become a more common occurrence over the past years, both scenarios cause concerns for our health – short-term and long-term.

  • Chapter 9 of your course text defines the following terms: underweight, overweight, and obese. Explain the implications of each of these conditions on our health. What are the health risks of having too little body fat, and conversely, what are the risks of having too much body weight?
  • Using Figure 9-2 from Chapter 9 of the course text as a reference, explain how mortality is impacted by underweight and overweight status. What preventive measures can we take to prevent underweight and overweight issues in our society and maintain a healthy body weight?
  • Report two actions or programs, that your community or state has implemented to address underweight, overweight, and/or obesity.

Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Your research and claims must be supported by your course text and a minimum of one additional scholarly source. Use proper APA formatting for in-text citations and references as outlined in the

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers. Each peer response should contain 100 words at a minimum. Compare your peers’ community measures for preventing underweight and overweight challenges to those you researched. How are they different? Share an example of how you maintain a healthy body weight.

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Overweight, Underweight and Obesity
Chapter 9 of your course text defines the following terms: underweight, overweight, and
obese. Explain the implications of each of these conditions on our health. What are the
health risks of having too little body fat, and conversely, what are the risks of having too
much body weight?
Usually, a person is considered underweight if his or her Body Mass Index (BMI) is
below 18.5 and overweight is the BMI is over 25 (Steinfeld, 2016). An Obese person has a BMI
of over 30. ...


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