Saude (OMS) afirma que a obesidade e a causa de morte de 2,8milhoes de pessoas por ano. Hoje, 12% da populacao mundial e considerada obesa, disse o diretor do departamento de estatisticas da OMS, Ties Boerma.Obesity is characterized by excessive accumulation of body fat with potential damage to health due to these various factors, being those genetic or environmental factors such as dietary patterns and physical activity or individual biological factors, among many others, that interact in the etiology of the pathology (WHO, 1997). More recently and adopting a shorter definition, the World Health Organization (WHO, 2002) defines obesity as an excess of body fat accumulated in the adipose tissue, with implications for health. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that obesity is the cause of death of 2.8 million people per year. "Today, 12% of the world population is considered obese," said the director of WHO statistics, Ties Boerma. Existem diversas formas de diagnosticar a obesidade, sendo uma delas o calculo do Indice de Massa Corporal (IMC), adotado pela OMS para o calculo do peso ideal de cada individuo. Existem algumas excessoes em relacao ao IMC. Para determinar se uma pessoa musculosa esta acima do peso, por exemplo, deve-se realizar o exame de percentual de gordura por pregas cutaneas ou bioimpedancia, pois o IMC provavelmente dara um indice alto e esses individuos nao sao obesos. O IMC tambem nao e aplicavel para criancas e idosos, para os quais se aplica classificacao diferenciada. There are several ways to diagnose obesity, one of them is calculating the Body Mass Index (BMI), adopted by WHO to calculate the ideal weight of each individual.There are some exceptions in relation to BMI. To determine whether a muscular person is overweight, for example, they should go trough the exam of fat percentage by skinfold or bioimpedance, because BMI is likely to give a high rate and these individuals are not obese. BMI also does not apply to children and the elderly, for which classification applies in a different way. COMO CALCULAR O IMC/HOW TO CALCULATE BMI: : PESO (KG) ALTURA(M)2WEIGHT (KILOS) HEIGHT (METERS)2 TABELA DE CLASSIFICACAO DA OBESIDADE - IMCINDEX OF CLASSIFICATION OF OBESITY - BMI RISCOS DA OBESIDADE / OBESITY RISKS: - Doencas Cardiacas - Heart Diseases- Aumento Colesterol e Triglicerides - Increased cholesterol and triglycerides- Disturbios Psicologicos - Psychological Disorders- Doencas Renais e Hepaticas - Renal and Hepatic Diseases- Diabetes - Diabetes- Doencas do Sono (Apneia, insonia, etc) - Sleep Disorders (apnea, insomnia, etc.)- Disfuncoes Osseas e Reumaticas - Bone and Rheumatic Disorders- Doencas Pulmonares - Lung Diseases- Neoplasias - Neoplasias- AVC - Cerebral Vascular Disease TRATAMENTOS / TREATMENTS: - Uma alimentacao saudavel e equilibrada e fundamental para o crescimento, desenvolvimento e manutencao da saude de uma pessoa, alem de proporcionar disposicao fisica e mental para executar tarefas do dia-a-dia.- A healthy and balanced diet is essential for growth, development and maintenance of the health of a person, in addition to providing physical and mental disposition to perform tasks of your day. - Atividade Fisica Regular.- Regular Physical Activity. - Emagrecer com saude!!! Quanto mais