Male obesity levels in UK on the rise! There is no doubt about
it. Recent studies are revealing that a quarter of the UK male
population suffers from obesity. With modern life and
technologies making tasks easier, the resulting trend is a
decreasing amount of exercise being done, and an increasing
level of obesity. This article aims to answer the most
frequently asked questions concerning obesity and the treatments
that are available. What is obesity? Obesity is a condition
where an individual has a considerable accumulation of fat
within their body which can heavily attributed or directly cause
several serve and possibly life threatening conditions.
Characterised by either a build up of fat on the stomach,
commonly know as ‘apple-shaped', or a build up of fat on both
the hips and thighs, referred to as ‘pear-shaped'. Another
method that physicians can employ to categorise and determine
obesity is by using the body mass index, or BMI for short. This
index, which provides a reasonably accurate guide based on a