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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Body Mass Index


<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Forget about body shape: BMI predicts health risks: - eMaxHealth

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 07:32 PM PST


Forget about body shape: BMI predicts health risks:
eMaxHealth
There has been some debate about the best way to gauge a person's health risks related to obesity. New research suggest body mass index or BMI is still the best way to know if a person is at risk for heart disease or other complications of being ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Sacramento Fashion Week casting call - The Sacramento Press

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 05:45 PM PST


Sacramento Fashion Week casting call
The Sacramento Press
Sacramento Fashion Week instituted the BMI standard of determining when one's weight translates into a health risk for the first time this year. BMI is calculated by measuring a person's height and weight and stations were set up take those measurements.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Cutting car miles works as well as cutting calories in weight loss - STLtoday.com

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:18 PM PST


Cutting car miles works as well as cutting calories in weight loss
STLtoday.com
The researchers calculated that the body mass index of the average American (now measuring 27.6) could be lowered by 0.2 after six years of driving one less mile a day. By comparison, cutting the diet by 100 calories a day could reduce the average body ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>The Skinny on Obesity: Part I - Chapelboro.com

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 07:28 AM PST


Chapelboro.com

The Skinny on Obesity: Part I
Chapelboro.com
Don't fret however, it's not important that we know how to do the calculation, just that we know BMI is a ratio of weight and height, and that any internet calculator will yield the same results. Once we have done the math we arrive at one number that ...
A Good Way to Measure Obesity? Fat Chance Wall Street Journal
The skinny on obesity Hernando Today
BMI still best obesity gauge Investor's Business Daily
Daily Beast  - Clark Fork Valley Press
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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Fat to fit in our most obese city

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:32 AM PST

Memphis, Tennessee, has the highest number of obese people in the nation. A growing group of determined people are working to change that -- and succeeding.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Physicians admit feeling under qualified and lacking necessary education to treat obesity

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 09:21 PM PST

( Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health ) New study finds that only 44 percent of primary care physicians reported success in helping obese patients lose weight and many identified nutritionists and dietitians as the most qualified providers to care for obese patients.

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