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Law and Obesity

Miguel Girela


I. Obesity as a growing public health problem: the global epidemic and the cases of Europe and Spain We can say that obesity is an excess of fat or adipose tissue in relation to age, sex, and height.1 The generally accepted system for determining overweight and obesity, with slight variations, is the Body Mass Index (BMI) which is weight in kilograms divided by height in square meters (BMI= kg/m2).2 Overweight3 is defined as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 k

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