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Obesity: A choice? Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated. People are considered obese when their body mass index (BMI) is very high. Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessive food energy intake, lack of physical activity, and genetic susceptibility. The body mass index is a measure for human body shape based on an individual´s mass and height. BMI is used to calculate how fat are the people and how many weight do they have to lost. The body mass index indicates the excessive mass through your height and weight. The people developed more techniques to eat healthfully and loss or gain weight. There are specialists in these techniques and they based trough your routine or your daily exercise. The BMI is the most basically technique that you have, it can expressed how fat are you and it can prevent so many diseases. A healthy diet, with all the proteins, carbs and fats you need, along with exercise can prevent obesity and diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart strokes and diabetes. Essay by Mónica Terrazas