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Sunday, July 15, 2012

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Trending: Measure yourself on the global fat scale - The Independent

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 04:07 PM PDT


Trending: Measure yourself on the global fat scale
The Independent
Forget boring chat about body-mass indexes, kilograms and body-fat percentages – the new fun way to look at your weight is with the global fat scale. ... Using UN data on population size in 177 countries, together with estimates of global weight from ...
Where are You on the Global Fat Scale? The Costa Rican Times

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Child's mental development can be slowed by prepregnancy weight of mother - Examiner.com

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 01:42 PM PDT


Child's mental development can be slowed by prepregnancy weight of mother
Examiner.com
In this study children whose mothers were obese or underweight were 1.5-times more likely than were children of normal-weight mothers to have delayed mental development at 2 years of age. There was no such association with body mass index (BMI) ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>3 New Rules Make Weight Loss Successful - LiveScience.com

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 08:20 AM PDT


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3 New Rules Make Weight Loss Successful
LiveScience.com
At the study's start, the participants' average age was 58, and their average body mass index (BMI) was 31.3. (People with BMIs of 30 and higher are considered obese.) During the year-long study, the participants lost, on average, 10.7 percent of their ...
Keep a journal, don't skip meals to shed weight: study Chicago Tribune
Weight-Loss Keys: Food Journals, Eating In, Not Skipping Meals Philadelphia Inquirer

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Task force urges insurers to cover weight-loss plans - Columbia Daily Tribune

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:09 AM PDT


Task force urges insurers to cover weight-loss plans
Columbia Daily Tribune
John Joseph IV tipped the scales at 203 and had a BMI of 28.3 when he paid $150 to join the program at the YMCA near his Birmingham, Ala., home. In the four months since then, the 34-year-old, who runs a job-coaching business for college grads, has ...
Panel urges insurers to cover weight-loss plans Athens Daily Review

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Doctors urged to calculate patients' BMI, treat obesity

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:17 PM PDT

WASHINGTON - A government panel renewed a call Monday for every adult to be screened for obesity during checkups, suggesting more physicians should be routinely calculating their patients' body mass index, or BMI, a measure of whether you're overweight, obese or just right considering your height.

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