Sentences with phrase «cent of one's body weight»

In his studies, obese children with two obese parents have achieved and maintained losses of 20 per cent of body weight over 10 years.

Losing just five per cent of body weight has been shown to significantly improve health, including lowering the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.

Then also consider your reaction at starting senior school aged 11 and the suggestion that you will need to lift 25 per cent of your body weight in books around school every 40 minutes, as well as getting them safely home and back to school daily.

Mr Adane said women who lost more than 1.5 per cent of body weight between the average ages of 20 to 24 years were 46 per cent less likely to develop hypertensive disorders.

Dr Bishop recommends her clients set a goal of losing ten per cent of their body weight then, once this goal is achieved, setting another 10 per cent goal, and so on, until a healthy weight and waist circumference is achieved.

Mice with colon cancer studied by HQ Han and colleagues at Amgen Research in California stopped eating, and lost 20 per cent of their body weight in three weeks.

In comparison, the five obesity medications currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for long - term weight management help patients lose an average of 7 to 12 per cent of their body weight over the course of a year.

Don't be surprised if you baby loses 7 - 10 per cent of their body weight this week, especially if they are breastfed; they should regain it within 10 days.

Dr Alison Fildes, first author from the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King's College London (and now based at UCL), said: «Losing 5 to 10 per cent of your body weight has been shown to have meaningful health benefits and is often recommended as a weight loss target.

For a 70 kg woman, a small weight gain of 1.5 to 2.5 per cent of their body weight is in the range of 1.05 to 1.75 kg per year.

«In the years leading up to pregnancy, women with moderate to high annual weight gains of more than 2.5 per cent of their body weight had a 2.3 times greater risk of developing HDP than those whose weight remained stable.

The air pressure in the treadmill can be adjusted to take the patient from 100 per cent of their body weight to only 20 per cent, the same feeling as walking on the moon, and reducing the impact and pressure on joints during the run.

«By losing only seven per cent of your body weight, you dramatically reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases associated with being overweight.

Select a weight approximately 20 to 35 per cent of your body weight (to start off with).

It's important to realise that when performed correctly, the head should hold less than 10 per cent of your body weight.