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Monday, September 10, 2012

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Childhood obesity rates fall in Bay - The News Herald

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:32 PM PDT


Childhood obesity rates fall in Bay
The News Herald
Soto said to check a child's body mass index (BMI) during the state-mandated annual screening. The Health Department uses the Center for Disease Control's calculator that takes not just height and weight, but age and sex into account as well. She said ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Exercise Does Boost Teens' Health, Study Finds - U.S. News & World Report

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:03 PM PDT


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Exercise Does Boost Teens' Health, Study Finds
U.S. News & World Report
Canadian researchers looked at more than 600 youths with an average age of about 12 years to assess how levels of physical activity affected cardiometabolic risk factors such as body-mass index (a measurement of body fat based on height and weight), ...
Vigorous physical activity associated with reduced cardiometabolic risk ... Medical Xpress
Harder Exercise Tied to Lower Heart Risk in Kids MedPage Today

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Report: Alaska obesity rate up to 27 percent among adults - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT


Report: Alaska obesity rate up to 27 percent among adults
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Weight categories are tallied through a formula called Body Mass Index. BMI is calculated as weight in pounds divided by height in inches squared, multiplied by 703. Adults with BMI ranges of 25 to 29.9 are considered overweight, while those above 30 ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Self-motivaiton helps boost health, not nagging - New Zealand Herald

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:05 PM PDT


TopNews Arab Emirates

Self-motivaiton helps boost health, not nagging
New Zealand Herald
Middle-aged women who motivate themselves to eat healthily have a lower body mass index than those who do so in order to keep others happy, new University of Otago research suggests. The Department of Human Nutrition study of 1600 women aged ...
Study: Self-motivation superior to pleasing others in battle to maintain ... Medical Xpress
Want to lose weight? Do it for you Stuff.co.nz
Self-Determination Fruitful in Weight Loss TopNews Arab Emirates
Adelaide Now
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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Study: Heavy teens eat fewer calories than peers

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:02 PM PDT

The findings illustrate the difficulty of losing weight by cutting calories alone, especially when the weight is gained early in life, the researchers said.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Overweight teens don't necessarily consume more calories - Fox News

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:56 AM PDT


CBC.ca

Overweight teens don't necessarily consume more calories
Fox News
During a physical exam, researchers noted the children's heights and weights, and used this to calculate their body mass index (BMI). Based on their BMIs, children were considered to be healthy weight, overweight, obese or very obese. Among young ...
Overweight tweens eat fewer calories than peers CBC.ca
Older overweight children consume fewer calories than their healthy weight peers ScienceBlog.com (blog)

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Overweight Teens Don't Necessarily Consume More Calories

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 07:53 AM PDT

Overweight teens actually eat fewer calories daily on average than their trimmer counterparts, a new study finds.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Study sheds light on how women keep weight off - Otago Daily Times

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:19 PM PDT


Study sheds light on how women keep weight off
Otago Daily Times
Middle-aged women who motivate themselves to eat healthily have a lower body mass index than those who do so in order to keep others happy, new University of Otago research suggests. The Department of Human Nutrition study of 1600 women aged ...

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