Rachel Taylor is a Diabetic and Obesity researcher at University of Otago, trying to prevent children from being overweight and getting different ways to helping to reduce weight in appropriate ways.
Obesity has serious implications for mental and physical health such as: high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart disease. Some people find it harder to lose weight than others.
Obesity is simply defined as having too much body fat for your particular weight or height. It is usually measured by an internationally recognised system known as body mass index also known as BMI. BMI is calculated by comparing your height to weight. It's quite simple in adults, but in children, the measurement is commonly adjusted depending on age and sex.
Rachel is one of the investigators of a several large projects aimed at determining different ways to effectively preventing children becoming overweight or helping them to reduce thier weight in appropriate way.
There are many different factors that contribute obesity, an average figure from research studies estamiate obesity is 40% genetic and 60% due to environmental factors but there is a lot of variation in the scienentific literature
For some people the most effective technique to prevent or reduce obesity might be to reduce food size portions.
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