Obesity is one of the most challenging chronic
disease threats facing our country today. It has profound health and economic
consequences for our patients and our
country. In clinical practice, overweight and obesity are diagnosed by body
mass index (BMI), which represents a measure of a patient’s weight for their
height. There are various reasonswhy people became fatty and gain overweight. It is a medical
problem associated with environmental and socio-economic factors. In some factors, people seem to under nourish and in some
conditions people
became obese. In this paper, I find
out some causes which affectour body, especially daily lifestyle.
I need to take some anthropometric measurements to check their nutritional
status and I did some statistical
analysis to experiment with the
interrelationship between BMI (body mass index) and anthropometry. Which one is
better to calculate obesity, BMI or Anthropometry was my aim to find out. I did
my experiment on the population of the hilly area. I did work among
106 individuals cross-sectionally. As result, I
got a strong relationship between BMI and anthropometry.
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