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MAKE 2005 YOUR BEST YEAR YET
Yikes! It's 2005. And you know what that means-it's time for New Year's resolutions. Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement. Unfortunately, many people barely get out of the starting gate before they stumble. The biggest reason most people fail is that they tiy to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30...
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Should schools issue a "health report card," reporting a child's body mass index, as Arkansas plans to do?(Issues)
JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
; Overweight students are reminded every day of their weight issues by their peers, and it is therefore unnecessary for schools to tell them something they are already aware of. The implementation of a program such as this is risky and will have mixed results. The best-case scenario of a health
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Effect of pregravid body mass index on pregnancy outcome.(Tips from Other Journals)
American Family Physician
; Both very low weight for height and obesity have been associated with poor pregnancy outcomes. Two recent studies provide more data on the effect of preconception maternal weight for height (body mass index) on pregnancy outcome. Hickey and colleagues studied the association between pregravid body
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Relationships among Body Mass Index, Parental Perceptions, Birthweight and Parental Weight after Referral to a Weight Clinic
Journal of the National Medical Association
; Financial support: This work was supported in part by 1K23DK065995 award (JK-V) and by T32 DK071212 award (MW). Objective: We sought to determine whether, in a specialty referral clinic, parental perceptions of their child's obesity were commensurate with the child's body mass index z score.
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A WEIGHTY MATTER FOR STUDENTS; STATE WILL REQUIRE SCHOOLS TO COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT BODY MASS INDEX.(Local)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; Byline: Sapna Kollali Staff writer Students will soon need to step up on the scale before they can go to school. A new state law mandates schools collect students' body mass index - a ratio of height to weight, often used to determine obesity - along with physical exams that have long been a
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British children are fatter than health studies' worst fears Expanding waistlines on under-fives seen as better way of measuring obesity than the body mass index system
The Sunday Telegraph London
; BRITISH TODDLERS have fatter stomachs than health professionals thought, new research has revealed. Scientists found that the average waistband of two-year-old girls has increased by more than five per cent in a decade, while that of boys has grown by four per cent. The waist measurements of other
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Sex Differences in the Relation between Body Mass Index and Asthma and Atopy in a Birth Cohort
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Rationale: Several studies have identified an association between asthma and obesity in women. It remains unclear if this association is due to genuine asthma or to symptoms caused by overweight, at what age the association develops, and whether it is confined to females. Objective: To explore the
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Association of body mass index and Trp64Arg polymorphism of the [beta]^sub 3^-adrenoreceptor gene and leptin level in Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study
British Journal of Biomedical Science
; ABSTRACT In this study the association between β^sub 3^-adrenoceptor gene polymorphism and serum concentration of leptin with body mass index (BMI) is investigated. Using subjects in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study, genotyping of the Trp64Arg polymorphism of the β^sub 3^-adrenoreceptor
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The impact of tobacco use and body mass index on the length of stay in hospital and the risk of post-operative complications among patients undergoing total hip replacement
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
; We carried out a retrospective cohort study of 3309 patients undergoing primary total hip replacement to examine the impact of tobacco use and body mass index on the length of stay in hospital and the risk of short term post-operative complications. Heavy tobacco use was associated with an
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Calculate your body mass index.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; To find your body mass index: 1. Figure out how many inches tall you are. For instance, a 5-foot-tall woman is 60 inches tall. A 6-foot-tall man is 72 inches tall. 2. Multiply that figure by itself. (60 inches x 60 inches = 3600) 3. Divide your weight by the figure in step 2. If the 60-inch-tall
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THE SUPER SIZE OF AMERICA: AN ECONOMIC ESTIMATION OF BODY MASS INDEX AND OBESITY IN ADULTS
Eastern Economic Journal
; The drudgery of seeking subsistence has been supplanted for millions of people, not by abundance and indulgence, but rather by a new concept of what are necessities and needs. - George Katona, The Mass Consumption Society [1964, 6] INTRODUCTION The New York Times recently featured in its book
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