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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Obesity Being Addressed In the Legislature - KMVT

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 07:43 PM PDT


KMVT

Obesity Being Addressed In the Legislature
KMVT
Nutrition advocates say a reduction in the average body mass index by five percent could lead to major health care savings, more than one billion dollars in ten years and three billion in 20 years. Idaho isn't alone in this country when it comes to ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Healthy-living programme targets seniors in Tampines - AsiaOne

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 06:10 PM PDT


AsiaOne

Healthy-living programme targets seniors in Tampines
AsiaOne
The RC's premises at Block 842, Tampines Street 82, will also be transformed into a Health Promoting Residents' Corner where monthly body-mass-index and blood-pressure checks, health talks and healthy-cooking demonstrations will be organised in ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Solution to obesity is more exercise - Victoria Times Colonist

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 05:01 PM PDT


Solution to obesity is more exercise
Victoria Times Colonist
International research data consistently report the BMI of Asians as being relatively low when compared to Caucasians. Second, BMI does not differentiate between the fat body mass and lean body mass (muscle). It simply knows that we are too heavy for ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Obese heart patients less likely to die than those with normal weight - Examiner.com

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:10 AM PDT


Examiner.com

Obese heart patients less likely to die than those with normal weight
Examiner.com
Obesity is defined as having a BMI (body mass index) of 30 or above. BMI is determined by comparing height and weight. Despite reporting poorer health, participants in the study who were obese were less likely to die over the next seven years than ...
Obese heart patients 'do better' BBC News

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