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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Best to Be Overweight, but Not Obese? Higher Levels of Obesity Associated With ... - Science Daily (press release)

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 05:37 PM PST


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Best to Be Overweight, but Not Obese? Higher Levels of Obesity Associated With ...
Science Daily (press release)
All-cause mortality HRs for overweight (BMI of 25-<30), obesity (BMI of ≥30), grade 1 obesity (BMI of 30-<35), and grades 2 and 3 obesity (BMI of ≥35) were calculated relative to normal weight (BMI of 18.5-<25). The researchers found that the summary ...
Dreading your diet? Don't worry...plump people live LONGER than their skinnier ... Daily Mail
Being Moderately Overweight Lowers Risk of Death American News Report
Being moderately overweight might not pose health risk Los Angeles Times
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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Israel's New Year's Resolution: No More Overly Thin Models - Wall Street Journal

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 05:00 PM PST


Wall Street Journal

Israel's New Year's Resolution: No More Overly Thin Models
Wall Street Journal
Israel's law, which went into effect Tuesday, bans models with a body-mass index—a calculation based on height and weight—of less than 18.5 from appearing in advertisements. According to that BMI standard, a female model who is 5 feet, 8 inches tall ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Games, Gadgets And Apps To Help You Stay Fit

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

Cut up your gym membership card, fire your personal trainer and cancel that Jenny Craig food order.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Travel-Based Interventions May Be As Effective As Diet on BMI - Doctors Lounge

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 10:03 AM PST


Travel-Based Interventions May Be As Effective As Diet on BMI
Doctors Lounge
5 in Preventive Medicine. TUESDAY, Jan. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Cutting car travel can be as effective as reducing calories in lowering body mass index (BMI), according to research published online Dec. 5 in Preventive Medicine. Banafsheh Behzad, from ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Contemporary literature’s obesity epidemic

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 09:04 AM PST

Novels like Michael Kimball's "Big Ray" reveal that corpulence has become a go-to metaphor for emotional unrest

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Gwyneth Paltrow: Lights, camera, glamour to the Max! - Philippine Star

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 08:33 AM PST


Gwyneth Paltrow: Lights, camera, glamour to the Max!
Philippine Star
... keep an eye on your body mass index (BMI) with the BMI Calculator Extension; Guide to Fabulous Hairstyles mobile app; Mediterranean Diet for All app in Chrome: Beauty Camera mobile app; FitnessBliss Chrome app with more than 750 animated fitness ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Daily Checkup: Wanna lose some pounds in 2013? Don't just take a weight-and ... - New York Daily News

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:11 PM PST


New York Daily News

Daily Checkup: Wanna lose some pounds in 2013? Don't just take a weight-and ...
New York Daily News
"To identify whether patients are overweight or obese, we use the Body Mass Index (BMI), a mathematical calculation of weight in kilograms over height in meters squared," says Yanagisawa, "BMI can overestimate or underestimate, but generally a BMI over ...

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