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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Pregnancy Weight Debate - WKBW-TV

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:01 PM PST


Pregnancy Weight Debate
WKBW-TV
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is revising its guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy. The group now recommends that physicians record a woman's body mass index at her first prenatal visit, and counsel her on diet ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Students lose 756 pounds at boarding school - Today.com (blog)

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 03:21 PM PST


Students lose 756 pounds at boarding school
Today.com (blog)
Independence already had taken aggressive steps to battle childhood obesity, measuring students' body-mass index and posting the information on a protected website parents use to check grades and lunch account balances. The data was alarming: 36 ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>2013: 6 Key Issues Fleets Face

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 01:10 PM PST

Trucking will be dealing with familiar tough issues next year, as well as some that may have a new twist, whether it's in the boardroom, in the cab or in Congress.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Today's Apps Gone Free: Super Monsters Ate My Condo, Checkmark, Weight ... - AppAdvice

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 09:50 AM PST


AppAdvice

Today's Apps Gone Free: Super Monsters Ate My Condo, Checkmark, Weight ...
AppAdvice
The app also includes badges for reaching milestones, a calendar view, automatic BMI calculation, and the ability to export your data. Weight Journal – Track and Monitor Your Weight and BMI in an Easy and Effective Way is available for free today only ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Study: Doctors Feel Unqualified to Treat Obesity - EndoNurse

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 09:26 AM PST


The Guardian

Study: Doctors Feel Unqualified to Treat Obesity
EndoNurse
They found primary care physicians overwhelmingly supported additional training such as nutrition counseling and practiced bases changes such as having scales report body mass index, improve obesity care. Primary care physicians with fewer than 20 ...
Obesity Outranks Starvation as Global Killer, Report Says Afro American
Two-thirds of English men overweight The Guardian
Obesity's paradoxical impact on trends in life expectancy The Conversation

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Many primary-care doctors want help treating obesity

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 08:40 AM PST

Only 44 percent of primary-care doctors say they've helped obese patients lose weight, and many believe that nutritionists and dietitians are the most qualified care providers for these patients, researchers have found.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>GEOLOGY returns to Naica Cave, Mexico, and extends its reach to Mercury

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 06:31 AM PST

( Geological Society of America ) GEOLOGY ends 2012 with 23 new articles spanning a variety of geoscience phenomena and locations, including Mercury; Naica Cave, Mexico; Diamantina, Brazil; the Galápagos hotspot; China; the Aleutian island arc; Disko Bay and Uummannaq Fjord, central West Greenland; the California arc; the Pacific Ring of Fire; Po Plain, Italy; Torfajökull, Iceland; the US Sierra ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>PCPs agree they may not be the best health care professionals to give weight related counseling

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 04:34 AM PST

Your primary care physician may be your first choice for assistance with most health-related issues, but according a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, primary care physicians agree they may not be the best health care professionals to give weight related counseling.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Overweight? You can scale back weight gain in pregnancy - Medical Xpress

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 02:44 AM PST


Overweight? You can scale back weight gain in pregnancy
Medical Xpress
The weight categories are based on body-mass index (BMI), a calculation based on height and weight. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is normal weight, between 25 and 29.9 is overweight and 30 or greater is considered obese. The guidelines, published in the ...
ACOG: IOM's Gestational Weight Gain Guide Is Basis for Practice Doctors Lounge
Overweight Pregnant Women Can Safely Gain Under 25 Pounds Ob.Gyn. News Digital Network

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>New 'obesity calculator' predicts child's likelihood of being overweight - Fox News

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:43 AM PST


Mother Nature Network

New 'obesity calculator' predicts child's likelihood of being overweight
Fox News
Utilizing simple data such as the child's birth weight, number of household members and the mother and father's body mass indexes (BMI), the calculator provides a percentage of predicted probability of obesity. The mother's occupation and her ...
New formula calculates baby's obesity risk Mother Nature Network
New Formula Can Predict Obesity At Birth (But Don't New Parents Have Enough ... BlissTree
Simple formula predicts child obesity at birth NBCNews.com (blog)
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