Overweight, Obesity and Body Mass Index (BMI)

Dear Colleagues,

On a global scale, obesity and underweight are severe health risks for various diseases. Along with the popularity of high-sugar and high-fat foods, increasingly more people are becoming obese. Especially now that more and more adolescents are starting to be exposed to these foods at an early age, which, too, has led to a variety of cardiovascular diseases.

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters. A high BMI can be an indicator of high body fat. BMI can be used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems, but it is not diagnostic of the body fatness or health of an individual.

In this Special Issue, we would like to invite all outstanding scholars in the field of obesity and BMI to contribute to this topic. Interdisciplinary studies are also welcome!

Dr. Antonio S. Cabaco
Dr. Jose Enrique del Moral-García
Guest Editors

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