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Friday, February 15, 2013

Body Mass Index


<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>OBESITY: A THREAT TO OUR HEALTH

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 08:05 PM PST

It is time for the government of Nepal to act against the threat posed by the burden of obesity in our society. Obesity poses huge threat to the economy and its health implications are enormous. It is time for us to rise against this global epidemic.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Body shape, not mass, may accurately predict risk of early death

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 03:43 PM PST

Goldstein stands just under 5-feet 8-inches tall and weighs in at 163 pounds, which puts her body mass index, or BMI, at 25.1.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>BMI - Is The Body Mass Index Formula Flawed?

Posted: 31 Jan 2013 01:18 PM PST

BMI (Body Mass Index) has been used for over 100 years in population studies, by doctors, personal trainers, and other health care professionals, when deciding whether their patients are overweight. However, BMI has one important flaw - it does not measure your overall fat or lean tissue (muscle) content. Body Mass Index, derived from a simple math formula, was devised in the 1830s by Lambert ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Does the BMI need correcting?

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:26 PM PST

A new way of calculating Body Mass Index (BMI) has been proposed but does it really solve any of the BMI's well-known problems?

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>U.S. obesity rate stable in 2012

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 05:19 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. adults were as likely to be obese last year as they were in 2011, a survey indicated.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Knowing your Body Mass Index (BMI)

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 03:12 PM PST

You have probably seen the Body Mass Index, the BMI, chart before.

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Posted: 22 Jan 2013 11:01 PM PST

The rise in type 2 diabetes that we have seen over the last decades has paralleled the rise in obesity, with 36% of American adults now meeting the Body Mass Index criteria for obesity, and another 1/3 being overweight (you can calculate your BMI here , in the right hand column).

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Interactive calculator: do you win or lose with the new BMI?

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 12:24 AM PST

Use this interactive tool to see how your body mass index is different under Oxford University's proposal for a new system.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Mathematicians Find We've Been Calculating Body Mass Index Wrong

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 07:23 AM PST

Mathematicians found the formula used to calculate body mass index ( BMI ) has made tall people more overweight and those vertically challenged not fat enough.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Tall people may not be as overweight as they thought (but if you're short you may have to stay on that New Year diet a ...

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 06:42 AM PST

Researchers at Oxford University say the formula currently used to calculate the Body Mass Index is flawed and renders tall people too fat and short people too thin.

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