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• Fatty deposits ‘can harm heart function’ (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): Fat accumulation in different body locations, such as around the heart and the aorta and within the liver, could lead to certain decreased heart functions, say researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).The study also found that measuring a person’s body mass index (BMI) ...
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• Fatty deposits ‘can harm heart function’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): Fat accumulation in different body locations, such as around the heart and the aorta and within the liver, could lead to certain decreased heart functions, say researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).The study also found that measuring a person’s body mass index (BMI) ...
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• Fatty deposits impair heart function

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, Nov 14 (IANS) Fat deposited around the heart and within the liver is likely to impair certain heart functions.The study by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has found that measuring a person’s body mass index (BMI or weight to height ratio) does not reliably predict the amount of undesired fat ...
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• Check Your BMI to Gauge Your Body Fat Content

  
  Promote Health & Wellness — Authority: 113
  Your BMI, or body mass index, is a fairly accurate measurement of your body fat. It can be used by doctors to assess someone’s body fat content and whether or not they fall within a healthy range. BMI is calculated in its most basic form using simply your height and weight. There are other factors that may affect ...
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• Wi-Fi enabled scales that will tweet your weight and BMI

  
  Geek With Laptop — Authority: 573
  These days it seems we have become obsessed with using technology to share just about every aspect of our lives with others, no matter how personal that info might be. Social Networking has become the main if not the only way that some people keep up to date with what’s going on in the lives of others. So how much ...
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• Fat collections linked to decreased heart function

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  (Boston University Medical Center) Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have shown that fat collection in different body locations, such as around the heart and the aorta and within the liver, are associated with certain decreased heart functions. The study, which appears on-line in Obesity, also ...
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• Diabetes012

  
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• Bing gets geekier thanks to Wolfram Alpha

  
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• Like Magic Getting Motivated With A Weight Loss Calculator

  
  Weight Loss Tips — Authority: 135
  A weight loss calculator can be a great motivational tool if you look at it with the right attitude. Whether youve got 10 pounds to lose or 200, punching in the numbers and coming up with goals and time lines…
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• Overweight as teenager doubles risk of multiple sclerosis in women

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 133
  AAN.com - Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults compared to female teens who are not obese, according to a study published in the November 10, 2009 issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.The research involved ...
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• Physical education improves health in low-income adolescents (Re-issue)

  
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  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has shown that school-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities.Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley have found that regular participation in PE class is ...
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• Weight Management (Health Ebook)

  
  Health and Medic — Authority: 142
  The prevalence of obesity in the United States has doubled in the past two decades. Nearly one­third of adults are obese, that is, they have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. One of the fastest growing segments of the population is that with a BMI with accompanying comorbidities. Over the last two decades, ...
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• Physical education improves health in low-income adolescents

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has shown that school-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities.Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley have found that regular participation in PE class is ...
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• Being skinny is dangerous for dialysis patients

  
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  Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): A new study has shown that dialysis patients with low body fat are at increased risk of death.“Our study indicates that body fat may be protective in dialysis patients. The results add to the increasing number of reports about the ‘obesity paradox’ or ‘reverse epidemiology’ in ...
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• Apple-shaped men, pear-shaped women ‘at increased blood clot risk’

  
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  Washington, Oct 30 (ANI): Women who carry excess weight on the hips, and apple-shaped men who carry it on the waist, risk dangerous blood clots, say experts.Researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association that the location of extra pounds appears to affect the risk of blood clots in ...
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• Gastric Bypass - The Advantages Of Laparoscopic Surgery

  
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  Gastric bypass surgery is the most often carried out operation for weight loss in the USA with more or less 140,000 operations being done in 2005 Dating back more than 50 years, a lot of surgeons have grown up with gastric bypass surgery and possess a very effective understanding of both its risks and benefits.In [...]
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• Decline in Fitness Accelerates After Age 45

  
  The Mesothelioma Advisor - Cancer, Health, Wellness, and Medical Information — Authority: 116
  Men in Particular See Dip in Fitness Levels, but Exercise and Healthy Weight Can Help Fitness levels decline with age and accelerate after age 45 in men and women, a new study says. But staying at a healthy weight and engaging in regular physical activity can help. “The U.S. population is aging and is ...
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• Women’s fat hips, men’s bulging waistlines increase blood clot risk

  
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  Washington, Oct 27 (ANI): Excess weight on women’s hips and men’s waists elevates the risk of potentially fatal blood clots, says a new study.Researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association that the location of extra pounds appears to affect the risk of blood clots in middle-aged ...
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• Decline in fitness speeds up after 45

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, Oct 27 (ANI): Fitness level declines with age and begins to drop particularly sharply after age 45, says a new study.Published in the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, the study claimed that maintaining a healthy body mass index (BMI), not smoking and ...
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• Body Fat Proportion is The Correct Way to Measure Fitness

  
  Health, Diet and Fitness Review — Authority: 136
  As your body is about 50-55% water, you be able to temporarily stage-manage your weight with diet pills and fad diets but, you cannot manipulate your body fat percentage. Body fat percentage is a extra meaningful metric for gauging physical fitness than what you can pay for out of height and weight tables. The U.S. ...
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