what is the difference between a fat person and an obeese person. what makes someone obeese? what is the scale or what is the cutoff point?
2007-09-02 04:24:22 · 5 answers · asked by shawn L 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Look at the Body Mass index chart in the wiki article.
Find your height on the far right side (or left side for metric), then find your weight at the top (metric at the bottom), and in the middle of the chart where those two meet, find the color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index
The yellow area is normal
Orange is overweight
Red is obese.
The line between orange and red is the 'cutoff'.
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2007-09-02 06:24:18 · answer #1 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Obeese" means absolutely nothing. "Obese" refers to a medical condition where body fat can cause health problems. The term "fat" is a subjective term that can apply to people who are overweight.
2007-09-02 06:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by Kenneth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fat person could just mean someone who is kind of chubby. An obeese person is someone who is extremly over weight. Like if you weigh over 300 lbs.
2007-09-02 04:32:44 · answer #3 · answered by Hollister Babe 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
fat isnt as bad as obeese
obeese is when someone is really big
there is no particular cutoff scale but you can tell when someone is obeese by looking at them.
2007-09-02 04:32:23 · answer #4 · answered by Vegetarian Era 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I always thought they were the same, the term "obese" being more of a medical, and more polite, term for "fat". I think, medically speaking, it means a body mass index greater than 30.
2007-09-02 04:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Dee B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋