Abstract
Obesity in older people: A new scenario and a new challenger
Highlights
Obesity, according to WHO (2002), is the excess of body fat accumulated in the adipose tissue with implications to health
One way to detect obesity is to calculate the Body Mass Index (BMI) which is calculated by dividing weight by the square of height, but that is not fully correlated with body fat
Results showed that 15.95% of men and 30.20% of female had general obesity and 42.94% of men and 74.47% of females had central obesity elderly
Summary
Obesity, according to WHO (2002), is the excess of body fat accumulated in the adipose tissue with implications to health. Since obesity is caused by an energy intake that exceeds the expense of the body, the simplest form of treatment is to adopt a healthier lifestyle, with less caloric intake and increased physical activity This change causes weight reduction and reversal of obesity as well as facilitates the maintenance of healthy framework. One way to evaluate the effect of food on health outcomes is the use of Eating Patterns that can be defined as “a set or a food groups consumed by a given population” [4] This model allows identifying the synergistic action of food and nutrients in the risk of many chronic diseases and may help to capture some of the complexity of the diet [5]. The aim of the study was to describe dietary patterns of the olders and associate with central and abdominal obesity as well as with the macronutrient intake
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