Where did all those pounds come from?
Los Angeles Times, CA -
Redirect to http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-lean19jun19,1,4719858.story?coll=la-headlines-health&ctrack=1&cset=true
2006-06-20
Your Health
Richmond News, Canada -
Forget those pass� BMI numbers. It turns out that those calculations were useless, corrupt and irrelevant, the Liberal Party of measurements. Yesterday's mistake. By taking the square root of your height minus your weight on Thursday and multiplying it by the third power of the log of your dandruff count you could determine your BMI (Body Mass Icecream) This was apparently a predictor of your cardiac risk. One of my small Asian buddies, Vietnamese by ethnicity, would taunt me by sneaking up behind me as though I was Peter Sellers and reach around me to start chest compressions. Even though he had a bit of a sake gut, his BMI was considered low and he would tend to laud it over us Caucasian behemoths. If I were bigger and had a mean streak, I would've sat on the little pest. Meanwhile my rugby player patients had BMIs that according to the charts meant that they should have had 17 heart attacks, 34 strokes and sung the lead for Aida. Fact is that they didn't have an ounce of fat on them outside of their skulls. A BMI does not differentiate muscle from fat from bone.
2006-06-19
Defining a Crisis: Cardiometabolic Risk
Yahoo! News (press release) -
"Finally, insulin resistance is very prevalent in the population, with more than half of the U.S. adult population destined to develop insulin resistance at least to some degree," said Dr. Eddy. On the basis of these results, for the purposes of identifying an underlying cause of the clustering of the MeS variables and their effects on CVD, he suggested it would be reasonable to redefine what has been called the metabolic syndrome as the "Insulin Resistance Syndrome," which was the name originally given to this clustering of abnormalities when they were originally identified some years ago. What is now called the "metabolic syndrome" or the disease diabetes can then be considered to be late forms of the insulin resistance syndrome. The definition can be refined further as future research identifies the underlying causes of insulin resistance.
2006-06-18
Your Health
Richmond News, Canada -
Forget those pass� BMI numbers. It turns out that those calculations were useless, corrupt and irrelevant, the Liberal Party of measurements. Yesterday's mistake. By taking the square root of your height minus your weight on Thursday and multiplying it by the third power of the log of your dandruff count you could determine your BMI (Body Mass Icecream) This was apparently a predictor of your cardiac risk. One of my small Asian buddies, Vietnamese by ethnicity, would taunt me by sneaking up behind me as though I was Peter Sellers and reach around me to start chest compressions. Even though he had a bit of a sake gut, his BMI was considered low and he would tend to laud it over us Caucasian behemoths. If I were bigger and had a mean streak, I would've sat on the little pest. Meanwhile my rugby player patients had BMIs that according to the charts meant that they should have had 17 heart attacks, 34 strokes and sung the lead for Aida. Fact is that they didn't have an ounce of fat on them outside of their skulls. A BMI does not differentiate muscle from fat from bone.
2006-06-16
Pregnancy is riskier for teens than adults
Baltimore Sun, United States -
To calculate your waist-to-hip ratio, get a tape measure and measure your waist, then your hips, then divide the first number by the second. For women, anything over 0.85 indicates increased risk, for men, anything over 0.95, said Dr. Arya Sharma an obesity specialist at the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He was also a co-author of the 2005 study, which involved 27,000 people, with and without heart disease.
2006-06-15
Get personal with your weight loss plan
The State, SC -
Starvation diets are unhealthy. Rapid weight loss has been shown to produce rapid weight gain, leading to yo-yo dieting. Also, getting rid of weight doesn't mean getting rid of fat. The first week or two you drop water weight. Because the diet is ill-conceived, weight tends to come back with a vengeance. Researchers will tell you it's better to stay fat than to constantly repeat rapid weight loss and weight gain. The American Psychiatric Association also notes that starvation diets are the first visible step to eating disorders, especially in adolescent girls.
2006-06-14
Get personal with your weight loss plan
The State, SC -
Starvation diets are unhealthy. Rapid weight loss has been shown to produce rapid weight gain, leading to yo-yo dieting. Also, getting rid of weight doesn't mean getting rid of fat. The first week or two you drop water weight. Because the diet is ill-conceived, weight tends to come back with a vengeance. Researchers will tell you it's better to stay fat than to constantly repeat rapid weight loss and weight gain. The American Psychiatric Association also notes that starvation diets are the first visible step to eating disorders, especially in adolescent girls.
1. What your BMI doesn''t tell you: in the past six months, I''ve gained fat and my clothes are tighter. So why is my BMI lower now? … and more of your
Q: I''m 4-foot-11 and just entered two different weights into an online BMI calculator. My current weight (98 pounds) gave a BMI of 19.8. My weight six ...
2. Shape.com: what''s on our web site this month? - Shape Your Life News
iShape 2.0 A good thing just got even better! Lose weight your way with iShape''s new and improved interactive diet and exercise program. About 50 cents a day is all it costs to get you to your go
3. Can you be fit and fat? Being thin isn''t everything, says surprising new research - Health
When Lavonnia "Bonnie" Johnson was 38 years old, she had an experience that changed her life--and her body--forever. She was participating in a medical ...
4. Drop 10 pounds in 5 weeks - mind body
Imagine yourself strong, lithe, lively. You get through your most hectic days with ease--running errands, playing with the kids. You slip on that I-am-too-cute ...
5. How to figure your body mass index
The latest government figures show that more than 60 percent of U.S. adults are overweight or obese. Carrying this extra weight puts them at a greater ...