What Is the Main Factor That Determines Whether Body Weight

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Essay

What is the main factor that determines whether body weight remains stable,increases or decreases?  Which diseases are associated with excess body fat?  What is one drawback of using only body weight as an indicator of health?

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Definitions:

Inferior Good

is a type of good whose demand decreases when the income of consumers increases, contrary to what is observed with normal goods.

Cross-price Elasticity

A measure of how the demand for one good responds to a change in the price of another good, indicating their substitutability or complementarity.

Complements

Goods or services that are used together, where an increase in demand for one leads to an increase in demand for the other.

Income Elasticity

A measure of how much the demand for a good or service changes in response to a change in consumers’ income.