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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Body Mass Index


<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>At BMI camp, 50% need urgent aid to lose weight - Indian Express

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 06:31 PM PDT


At BMI camp, 50% need urgent aid to lose weight
Indian Express
But at a free body mass index (BMI) camp organised by DMCH today, 50 per cent of the patients needed the doctors' urgent help to control weight in order to lead a normal and healthy life, The remaining 50 per cent needed diet care and exercise to stay ...
Free body mass index camp held at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital Times of India

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Body weight not always a predictor of health - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 03:26 AM PDT


Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Body weight not always a predictor of health
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
That's your BMI. Normal is a range from 18.5 to 24.9. Overweight is 25 to 29.9. Thirty and above indicates obesity. For those familiar with the metric system, the calculation is: weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Body mass index ...
Body weight often can mislead STLtoday.com
Living large in Southern Maryland So Md News

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Brain scans can predict weight gain - The Asian Age

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:14 PM PDT


Brain scans can predict weight gain
The Asian Age
So they recruited 58 female college students and calculated their body mass index (BMI). Next, their brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging while the young women viewed a series of pictures of delicious-looking food, ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>BMI Found Insufficient for Measuring Obesity - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:52 PM PDT


BMI Found Insufficient for Measuring Obesity
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
For nearly 200 years, doctors have relied on a formula called the "Body Mass Index" (BMI) to determine whether their patients are within a healthy weight range or beyond. A new study suggests that this approach may be insufficiently accurate for ...
Healthy weight helps transition to menopause Canada.com

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>CDC Study Suggests Americans May Have A Higher Obesity Rate

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 06:55 PM PDT

A new study co-authored by CDC and the state health commissioner suggests the obesity rate in the United States may be higher than previously thought, as 39 percent of Americans were misclassified as "overweight," rather than "obese."

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>| MyCentralJersey.com | MyCentralJersey.com

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 05:17 AM PDT

Phyllis Kumph a nurse and director of community health at Somerset Medical Center, helps Gail Behrle of Morristown calculate a body- mass index during the health fair Monday at the Morris Museum.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>We may be fatter than we think, researchers report

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:52 PM PDT

A new study finds that the widely used body mass index, or BMI, may be understating obesity in many people. As if the nation's weight problems were not daunting enough, a new study has found that the body mass index, the 180-year-old formula used to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy weight, may be incorrectly classifying about half of women and just over 20% of men as being the picture ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Delaware has high obesity rate

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 03:54 AM PDT

Beebe Medical Center registered nurse Doris Hensler checks the blood glucose and cholesterol of Liz Sheppard of Millsboro Wednesday at the Rehoboth Family YMCA in Rehoboth Beach.

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