What is Overweight?
[[File:Belly of an obese teenage boy.jpg|thumb|right|An overweight [[teenager|teenage]] boy]] [[File:At the beach - male abdominal obesity.JPG|thumb|right|Morbid Obesity (BMI > 40)]] '''Overweight''' is the condition of a [[person]] when they have more [[fat]] in their [[body]] than is [[healthy]]. Overweight means the person's body is too heavy. To find out if a person is overweight, you can calculate their [[body mass index]]. People with a [[BMI]] of 25 or more are overweight. Anything above 30 is [[obese]] (very overweight). Overweight used to be a BMI of 27 or more. In 1998 this changed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9806/17/weight.guidelines/|title=CNN - Who's fat? New definition adopted - June 17, 1998|website=edition.cnn.com}}</ref> Being overweight is associated with [[health]] problems such as [[Type 2 diabetes]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17227327|title=How many cases of Type 2 diabetes mellitus are due to being overweight in middle age? Evidence from the Midspan prospective cohort studies using mention of diabetes mellitus on hospital discharge or death records|first1=C. L.|last1=Hart|first2=D. J.|last2=Hole|first3=D. A.|last3=Lawlor|first4=G.|last4=Davey Smith|date=1 January 2007|journal=Diabetic Medicine: A Journal of the British Diabetic Association|volume=24|issue=1|pages=73–80|via=PubMed|doi=10.1111/j.1464-5491.2007.02016.x|pmid=17227327|s2cid=24615353}}</ref> Obesity is associated with greater health problems than overweight. In 2006 Adams et al. estimated that the risk of death increases by 20 to 40 percent among overweight people.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa055643|title=Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality in a Large Prospective Cohort of Persons 50 to 71 Years Old|first1=Kenneth F.|last1=Adams|first2=Arthur|last2=Schatzkin|first3=Tamara B.|last3=Harris|first4=Victor|last4=Kipnis|first5=Traci|last5=Mouw|first6=Rachel|last6=Ballard-Barbash|first7=Albert|last7=Hollenbeck|first8=Michael F.|last8=Leitzmann|date=24 Augus