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Overweight: Fast every second adult too thick
Posted by: Margert Bazelais
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Wiesbaden (Reuters) – almost every second adult in Germany is overweight. In May 2003, a survey showed that 49 percent of men and women have a «body mass index», which is above the value 25 – definition of the World Health Organization the criterion for overweight. This shares by the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden. The index is calculated by dividing the weight of a person by their height squared. 48 Percent of adults as overweight were been classified in a similar survey in 1999. Men are overweight currently in all age groups significantly more affected than women: total a «body mass index» of more than 25 is available the survey according to 58 percent of the men, but only at 41% of women. Also very overweight, which starts at an index of over 30 more men than women (12 percent) suffer with 14 percent. However, four times as many women as men are underweight: here, the values are in four and one percent respectively. Young women at the age of 18 to 19 years have even 13 percent underweight. Of which is spoken in a «body mass index» of less than 18.5 percent.
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