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What does obese mean?

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Adjective
  1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.
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Abdominally obese respondents were more often exhausted and experienced problems with sweating and depressive symptoms.
She was moderately overweight but no where near obese and the excess showed in her chubby cheeks and small saddlebags.
There are widespread negative attitudes that adults who are morbidly obese are weak-willed, ugly, awkward, self-indulgent, and immoral.
Children with low birth weight have greater chances of growing obese when well-fed later.
It appears the adipocytes of obese individuals release free fatty acids even in the presence of insulin.
He is criticizing the assertion that to weigh more than that is to be obese.

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