Expert Software for the Determination of Juvenile People's Obesity

TL;DR

This paper presents a software tool designed to evaluate juvenile obesity by analyzing input data like age, sex, weight, and skin fold width, aiding early intervention in schools and universities.

Contribution

It introduces a new calculus-based program for assessing juvenile body weight and structure using easily obtainable measurements.

Findings

The program effectively identifies overweight and obese juveniles.

It facilitates early intervention and monitoring of weight management.

The tool is suitable for use in educational and health settings.

Abstract

Keeping the health condition at the juvenile population is the concern of both the medical staff and the physical education teachers. Considering the steady tendency of the growth of the number of the youth with excessive weight (overweighted or obese) the intervention to combat this phenomenon must be initiated in the early stage when this condition occurs. The screening method for evaluating the body weight presented in this study uses a calculus program through which, based on the input data (age, sex, weight the width of the skin fold) an evaluation regarding each juvenile's weight and the body structure can be done. This program can be used in schools, high schools, universities, to signal the weight excess and to appreciate the intervention results for getting a normal weight.