Body Mass Index

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• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>A nation suffering from 'fat blindness': Average Briton is only prompted to go ... - Daily Mail
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Columnist: Know your numbers to judge heart disease risk
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Should we believe being overweight is good for our health? - The Guardian
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Fighting the 'Fat Letters' - Patch.com
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Obesity: An emerging health threat in Nepal
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>U.S. obesity rate stable in 2012

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>A nation suffering from 'fat blindness': Average Briton is only prompted to go ... - Daily Mail Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:57 PM PST Daily Mail A nation suffering from 'fat blindness': Average Briton is only prompted to go ... Daily Mail To illustrate just how inaccurate and imprecise BMI is, it is possible to be "healthy" in the morning but "overweight" by night time - without putiing on a single ounce of weight! We "shrink" between between 0.5-1.0 of an inch in the course of the day ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Columnist: Know your numbers to judge heart disease risk Posted: 22 Feb 2013 02:44 PM PST Despite many years of research and billions of dollars toward research and education, statistics reveal that heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in both men and women in the U.S. In African-Americans, high blood pressure is the leading heart disease diagnosis.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Should we believe being overweight is good for our health? - The Guardian Posted: 22 Feb 2013 04:32 AM PST Should we believe being overweight is good for our health? The Guardian Using standard categories of body mass index (BMI, your weight in kilograms divided by your height in metres, squared), the research showed that being in the overweight BMI category was associated with a lower "risk of death" than being an ideal BMI ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Fighting the 'Fat Letters' - Patch.com Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:05 AM PST Fighting the 'Fat Letters' Patch.com In 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health adopted a "BMI initiative" requiring public schools to calculate the BMI of children and teens of certain ages and send the results to the children's parents along with instructions for parents on ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Obesity: An emerging health threat in Nepal 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"/>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.

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