What Is Overweight?

Overweight definition: an simple to do calculation
Overweight definition: a distinction to be made at the level of stout cells

Refers to obesity when stout excess composed the body, this is the result of an imbalance between dietary caloric expenditure. As the body, receives more than it spends, it then stores the excess as stout mass.

This excess of body stout is spread so generalized in various fatty areas of the body.
Men store more in the upper part of the body (belly) and women in the decrease part (hips, buttocks, thighs…).
From the point of view of stout cells, can try a start of definition between overweight and obesity.
Stout is stored in cells called lipocyte or adipocytes. We talk about overweight when adipocytes store more stout and enlarge. It will speak of obesity when these same adipocytes arrive at infiltration, they multiply then.

But most health professionals use in fact different criteria for assessing overweight or obesity.
The most commonly used formula is the calculation of BMI (body mass index) that takes into account the size, weight.

BMI = weight (kg) /taille (size multiplied by size)
If the result is between 25 and 30 is referred to as overweight
If the result is between 30 and 35 is referred to as severe obesity
If the result is higher than 40 discussion then of morbid obesity.