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Thursday, October 11, 2012

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Not all fat created equal for pregnant mothers - New Zealand Doctor Online

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 05:00 PM PDT


Not all fat created equal for pregnant mothers
New Zealand Doctor Online
"We found that these simple, safe and inexpensive measurements gave us a much better predictor of obesity-related pregnancy outcomes than routinely used measures such as the Body Mass Index (BMI). The BMI is calculated by simply using a woman's ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Visceral Fat, Insulin Resistance, Weight Gain Predict Diabetes - Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 01:50 PM PDT


Visceral Fat, Insulin Resistance, Weight Gain Predict Diabetes
Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network
Diabetes manifestations are heterogeneous among obese individuals, and body mass index doesn't help discriminate individuals who are at risk for diabetes versus those who aren't, he added. "Our hypothesis was that markers of adipose tissue dysfunction ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Battling the bulge – 'Yes, I lost weight in just two months!' - Kuwait Times

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 11:12 AM PDT


Kuwait Times

Battling the bulge – 'Yes, I lost weight in just two months!'
Kuwait Times
According to the Body Mass Index (BMI) scale, below 75 kilograms weight for someone my stature would be called healthy. For the last 10 years, my weight was around 93 to 95 kgs, which meant that I was nearly 18 to 20 kgs overweight. Because of these ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Living Large and Staying Alive - SB Nation

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 09:13 AM PDT


Living Large and Staying Alive
SB Nation
Based on a study group of 129 former players, Dr. Mark Hyman and his colleagues at UCLA discovered on standard Body Mass Index (BMI) definitions, 67 percent of the players looked at were classified as being obese. That was the magic number," [...] "to ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Students in Washoe County slightly more overweight and obese than national counterparts, data shows

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:42 PM PDT

A Hug High School student works on her obesity artwork last week. / Tim Dunn/RGJ Is your child overweight/obese?

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