TY - SER TI - La obesidad SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 26 N2 - Any person who has more adipose tissue than the average for a given society is obese. The upper limit of normality is, in the industrialized world, twenty percent of body weight for men and 25 percent for women. Measuring fat mass is, at the same time complex, random. Therefore, in current practice the weight criteria are useful. Tables representing the desirable weights are attached, around which it has been estimated that life expectancy is better. These estimates of weight have been made based on height and type of constitution, both for men and women ER -