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Thursday, January 3, 2013

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Study: Being overweight might have health benefits - WCNC

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:35 PM PST


New York Daily News

Study: Being overweight might have health benefits
WCNC
... 80 percent of them showed that there was lower mortality in overweight than in normal weight people," Dr. Flegal explained. That does not apply not if you're BMI is in the obese category. Body Mass Index is a calculation based on your height and ...
Is Being Overweight Really Bad For You? ABC News
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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>"Perfect Woman" Weighed 171 Pounds - Yahoo! News (blog)

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 01:10 PM PST


Yahoo! News (blog)

"Perfect Woman" Weighed 171 Pounds
Yahoo! News (blog)
The Times referred back to Scheel in its January 2 story about a new study that claims having a slightly overweight Body Mass Index might actually lead to a longer life; it then ran a longer "whatever happened to…?" piece, discovering that Scheel ...
What Ever Happened to Elsie Scheel, 1912's Perfect Woman Who 'Didn't Know ... Jezebel

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Seventeen Magazine, Creator Of 'Body Peace Project,' Partners With 'Biggest ... - Huffington Post

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 12:27 PM PST


Seventeen Magazine, Creator Of 'Body Peace Project,' Partners With 'Biggest ...
Huffington Post
Seventeen introduces the "Biggest Loser" partnership in the wake of other recent body image controversies. In late 2012, the magazine came under fire for featuring a BMI calculator on its website. The aforementioned calculator indicated that a girl ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Smokers Pay 14% Higher Health Insurance Premiums Than Non-Smokers ... - Equities.com

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST


Smokers Pay 14% Higher Health Insurance Premiums Than Non-Smokers ...
Equities.com
Results are based only on adults aged 20 or older who provided their height and weight on the health insurance application. BMI was calculated based on this height and weight data according to a formula published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Israeli Law Bans Skinny, BMI-Challenged Models - ABC News

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 06:21 AM PST


ABC News

Israeli Law Bans Skinny, BMI-Challenged Models
ABC News
A law that regulates people's body weight would probably get little traction in Congress, not to mention U.S. courts. But not so here in Israel, where a new law took effect Jan. 1 that aims to prevent fashion models from losing weight to the detriment ...
Israel's New Year's Resolution: No More Overly Thin Models Wall Street Journal
Israel law bans models with less than 18.5 BMI from catwalks, commercials 10News
Israel bans too-skinny models MSN Money
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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Being slightly overweight 'may make you live longer' - Newstrack India

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 09:31 PM PST


Being slightly overweight 'may make you live longer'
Newstrack India
They looked at the subjects' body mass index at the start of the research and how likely they were to have died by the end of the time period. Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a mathematical formula relating height to weight. People are classified as being ...

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