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health advisory Diet Diet 2007-11-11 21:04:34

My doctor told me that I was morbidly obese in October, now I am border line obese/overweight. Can anyone tell me the difference.

Answer:

Obese is 20% or more over ideal. Morbid obesity is 100 pounds or more over ideal.

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A BMI of 30.0 - 39.9 is obese

A BMI of 40.0 or higher is severely (or morbidly) obese

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Well basically your BMI(body Mass Index)

Is much more lower than it was before, maybe you exceeded BMI of 40,

Don't worry Underweight/Normal/Overweight/... Obese

are just terms used on the way people are IDENTIFIED with their BMI.

Also if your tall, it really doesn't show much, but its always a good idea to keep up what you are doing to loose weight

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Morbidly obese means you are obese enough that it can kill you because of the extra strain it puts on your entire body whereas obese just means you are overweight.

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Obese is being a bit overweight.

Morbidly obese is having too much weight and the strain on your heart and blood vessels is enough to cause serious health problems.

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Wow, congratulations.

There is a huge difference between being borderline overweight/obsese and being morbidly obese. Being obese means you are about 30lb overweight, being morbidly obese, means you are closer to being 100lb overweight.

Well done for losing the weight : )

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