According to the American Medical Association, being obese means that 30% of your ideal body weight is constituted by fat. ... Some symptoms of being obese include a body fat percentage greater than thirty percent for women and twenty-five percent for men or weighing more than twenty percent more than your ideal body weight (Simon 2000). One would need to visit their physician in order to accurately determine their body fat percentage or their ideal weight. ... When obese kids are not dealing with the insults and nasty looks of strangers and classmates, they have to manage the "friendly ...

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The body type known as ideal is possessed by only 5% of American females ("E.D.... Her teacher even made a reference to her saying that she used to be as big as Laurie. ... People think that in order to be the ideal model image everyone wants, people resort to starving, vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, dieting, endured hours of exercise, and even plastic surgery (Thompson). ...

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