Body Mass Index

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• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Body shape, not mass, accurately predicts risk of early death
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>EnteroMedics Weight-Loss Device Is A Pulsing Placebo
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing? - BBC News

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Body shape, not mass, accurately predicts 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"/>EnteroMedics Weight-Loss Device Is A Pulsing Placebo Posted: 07 Feb 2013 02:47 PM PST ST. PAUL, Minn. (TheStreet) -- The EnteroMedics implantable weight-loss device known as VBLOC is a pulsing placebo. The company's hopes that VBLOC would be a fat zapper were dashed Thursday night with the release of top-line results from the phase III study known as RECHARGE. Patients implanted with an active VBLOC device lost just 8.5% more "excess weight" than those implanted with a dummy (non ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing? - BBC News Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:19 PM PST BBC News BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing? BBC News 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? How often have we heard that Brad Pitt at the time of Fight Club, and England rugby player Jonny Wilkinson in his prime, ... and more »

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