All posts tagged "body mass index"
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These 6 Exercises Could Help You Get a Flatter Stomach
What Is Belly Fat? Belly fat is the common name for central obesity or abdominal obesity. It is distinguished by the accumulation of excess visceral...
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Belly Fat WILL Be The Death of You
Researchers from the Mayo clinic have determined that people of normal weight but with excess belly fat have a higher death risk than people classified...
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100% Fruit Juice Makes You Lean, Really?
Could it be? Could slamming that tall glass of Orange Juice, good old OJ, be the secret to staying lean? Two recent studies see a...
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Obesity – There Is a Better Measure than Body Mass Index
Doctors and dietitians have been relying on the BMI or ‘body mass index’, for two centuries. It is one of the key vital signs when...
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New Study Finds Obesity Causes Regular Physical Pain
Most research around obesity focuses on the long-term health risks it presents. Greater likelihood of developing diabetes and heart disease are among the reasons medical...
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How Losing Weight Can Change Your Life
Ten months ago, my entire life changed – and not for the best. I found myself homeless, newly single, and with no idea where to...
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How to Fight Skin Infections Naturally?
Body’s immunity is a great thing that helps in fighting against diseases. When you get into an infection, it heals up after sometime that are...
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Men More At Risk For Diabetes than Women
Research and the resulting study done by scientists from the Scottish Diabetes Research Network at Glasgow University has found that men have a greater risk...
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Obesity in America Declines Slightly
Gallop recently conducted a poll to study the obesity rate in the United States. The study looked at the body mass index, which is a...
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The Combined Effects of Obesity and Chronic Lower Back Pain on Gait
The Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation published a study on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 that demonstrates that the combination of obesity and lower back pain...
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Workout Routines & Ideas to FIGHT Childhood Obesity
How often have you included a pack of chips (which your child is so fond of) into his daily eating habit? For most of us,...
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Definition of Obesity and Overweight: What is Obesity?
Obesity has been arbitrarily interchanged with overweight. However, at the medical point of view they are supposed to be defined differently. The term obesity refers...
