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In males, mean percentage body fat ranged from 23% at age 16–19 years to 31% at age 60–79 years. In females, mean percentage body fat ranged from 32% at age 8–11 years to 42% at age 60–79 years. But it is important to recognise that women need at least 9% more body fat than men to live a normal healthy life. [2]
Over 70 million adults in U.S. are obese (35 million men and 35 million women). 99 million are overweight (45 million women and 54 million men). [72] NHANES 2016 statistics showed that about 39.6% of American adults were obese. Men had an age-adjusted rate of 37.9% and Women had an age-adjusted rate of 41.1%. [70]
Of those adolescents who lost weight after bariatric surgery, 60% maintained at least a 20% weight loss at five-year follow-up and 8% had regained most of the pre-surgical weight. [6] Lack of pre-surgical weight loss is associated with an increased risk of weight gain after bariatric surgery. [ 6 ]
[3] 63% of adults were classified as overweight or obese (a body mass index of 25 or above), a 10 percent increase 1993. [3] More than two-thirds of men and 6 in 10 women were overweight or obese. [3] 28% of children aged between 2 and 15 years (inclusive) were overweight of them about 15% of children were obese. [3]
The figure for water fraction by weight in this sample was found to be 58 ±8% water for males and 48 ±6% for females. [4] The body water constitutes as much as 75% of the body weight of a newborn infant, whereas some obese people are as little as 45% water by weight. [5] This is due to how fat tissue does not retain water as well as lean tissue.
The human body can produce the fat it ... 193 °C (380 °F) [22] Palm [35] 49.3: 37.0: 40: 9.3 ... A 2004 review concluded that "no lower safe limit of specific ...
[3] [63] In the United States, excess body weight is associated with the development of many types of cancer and is a factor in 14–20% of cancer deaths. [63] A UK study including data on over 5 million people showed higher body mass index to be related to at least 10 types of cancer and responsible for around 12,000 cases each year in that ...
In the United States, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee [24] regulate and tax alcoholic beverages according to alcohol by weight (ABW), expressed as a percentage of total mass. The alc/vol value of a beverage is always higher than the ABW.