Sentences with phrase «higher normal body»

Dogs and cats have higher normal body temperatures than people, but if their temperature is above 104 degrees, then they need to be examined by a veterinarian.

Dogs have a higher normal body temperature than people, and they don't cool down as efficiently as we do.

Not exact matches

The result isn't just an increased appetite but an even stronger urge to eat fatty, high - calorie foods, because your brain is trying to restore the body's leptin levels to normal.

The per capita cost of obesity and its related risk to diabetes was as high as $ 17,000 for people whose BMI (body mass index) was over 40 (morbid obesity) compared to those employees of normal weight.

When the normal fight - or - flight response to stress (with its elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and body tension) becomes a continuing pattern of living, the body pays a high price.

If your baby's body temperature is higher than normal because of extra clothes or a scorching day, help him cool down by taking off a few of his layers and letting him rest or play quietly in a cool spot.

A study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that mothers with a high BMI (body mass index) were significantly more likely to have fraternal twins than women of normal weight.

Children this age need the higher fat content of whole milk to maintain normal weight gain and to help the body absorb vitamins A and D.

If you've been charting your basal body temp, you may be privy to one of the subtle signs of pregnancy that many women won't even notice: a higher than normal reading.

It's normal for the basal body temperature to remain high after menstruation has begun.

While its normal to feel some stress during pregnancy as your body changes and you prepare for this new chapter in your life, high levels of stress can be damaging to you and the baby.

BMI is a measure of your body fat — higher - than - normal BMI is generally bad for your health.

In addition to needing a higher fat content to maintain normal weight gain, it is also important to help his body absorb vitamins A and D. Also, nonfat, or skimmed, milk provides too high a concentration of protein and minerals and should not be given to infants or toddlers under age two.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says that although a baby's body temperature may rise slightly when teething, a true fever (rectal temperature of 100.4 degrees F or higher) and diarrhea aren't normal symptoms.

The higher levels of estrogen in your body slow the normal loss of hair.

Studies have shown that higher levels of prolactin are secreted at night, during your body's normal sleeping time.

After a meeting with members of the community to hear their accounts of the fallout of the pollution — including diminished property values and blood testing that revealed many residents have higher - than - normal concentrations of the toxic chemical in their bodies — Nixon will take part in a news conference with former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith Enck, according to her campaign.

The modified mice had half as much body fat as normal, even when fed a high - fat diet.

Current thinking is that these tiny diamonds can form in three ways: enormous pressure shockwaves from high - energy collisions between the meteorite «parent body» and other space objects; deposition by chemical vapor; or, finally, the «normal» static pressure inside the parent body, like most diamonds on Earth.

Being obese or having a higher body mass index (BMI) while carrying a BRCA (BReast CAncer gene) mutation is positively linked with higher levels of damage to the DNA in normal breast gland cells, new research suggests.

Among postmenopausal women with normal body mass index (BMI), those with higher body fat levels had an increased risk for invasive breast cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27 - 30.

Among the most common hormone disorders in women of reproductive age, PCOS occurs when a women's body produces slightly higher amounts of testosterone and other androgen hormones — sex hormones typically associated with men, but also found in women — than normal.

«High body fat levels associated with increased breast cancer risk in women with normal BMI.»

«Our findings show that the risk of invasive breast cancer is increased in postmenopausal women with normal BMI and higher levels of body fat, meaning that a large proportion of the population has an unrecognized risk of developing cancer.»

The condition occurs when a woman's body produces slightly higher amounts of testosterone and other androgen hormones than normal.

Apparently as a result, the 13 people they studied end up heavier and packed with a significantly higher percentage of body fat than family members with two normal copies of the leptin gene, the team reports in the 1 November issue of Nature.

«Because gadolinium has a high signal intensity in the body, our data may suggest that the toxic gadolinium component remains in the body even in patients with normal renal function.»

«High vitamin D2 levels are not a normal experience for the human body.

However, in the bodies of those with Menkes disease, copper begins to accumulate at abnormally low levels in the liver and brain and at higher than normal levels in the kidney and intestinal lining.»

For example, for a woman with a prepregnancy BMI of 22 (normal weight), high gestational weight gain was associated with 3 percent higher body fat and 12 pounds greater weight at seven years after delivery.

They have studied how «secondhand sugars» found in breast milk might negatively affect a baby's future body weight, how a concussion might interrupt a child's normal brain development and how teens in military families are at higher risk of depression and suicidal thoughts.

Additionally, even with heightened risk, a heart healthy lifestyle — maintaining a normal body weight, regular exercise and controlling other risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol — can help lower the risk of heart disease and heart failure.

While increasing body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, was associated with increased risk for high blood pressure in all four examined ethnic groups, the prevalence of high blood pressure was almost 6 times higher among obese Hispanic adolescents compared to normal weight Hispanics.

Half of the comparison group had a normal body mass index (BMI) of 25 or less; and half had a high BMI of 28 or more.

During this period, the mice on the high - fat diet gained 30 to 50 percent more body mass than mice fed a normal diet, and they developed more intestinal tumors than mice on a normal diet.

Due to the body's inability to degrade catecholamines (e.g. epinephrine), a person suffering from mercury poisoning may experience profuse sweating, tachycardia (persistently faster - than - normal heart beat), increased salivation, and hypertension (high blood pressure).

Covariates included the child's sex, calendar conception year (categorical variable), gestational age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)(BMI < 18.5 = underweight; 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 = normal weight; 25 ≤ BMI < 30 = overweight; BMI ≥ 30 = obese), maternal age at delivery (younger than 20, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, and ≥ 35 years), maternal education at delivery (≤ high school graduate, some college education, college graduate, postgraduate, or unknown), maternal race / ethnicity (Asian, black, white, or other), and gestational diabetes (yes / no).

But the mice were fed food containing higher - than - normal levels of the heavy isotope so that when the mice ate this food, their bodies absorbed the nitrogen isotopes and used it for several purposes, including to make GFAP molecules.

Body composition was unaltered in Lyplal1 knockout mice as assessed by Dual - energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scanning, both on normal chow and on a high fat diet.

And even when the high calorie diet results in somewhat increased body fat, they'll have little to no problem of melting it down once they return to normal diet.

While it's true that these veggies contain compounds called glucosinolates, which might interfere with your body's production of thyroid hormones in high amounts, it's pretty unlikely that they'll harm your thyroid if you're eating normal - size servings.

Those that have higher than normal body fat levels or are extremely overweight, usually have pretty high leptin levels in their bloodstream.

Chronic emotional stress will cause your body to keep the cortisol levels higher than normal for longer periods of time, resulting in decreased testosterone levels.

Many illnesses thrive at normal body temperature, and a fever (even a high one) is a good indication that the immune system is functioning to ward off the infection.

Consuming fresh, quality whole foods will not only optimize the normal functioning of your body, but will also help you maintain a healthy weight, high levels of energy and a sharp mind.

«I was surprised that even people who would be considered normal weight in terms of their [body mass index] have a higher risk of death if their waist circumference is increased,» says Tobias Pischon, MD, the study's lead author and a member of the department of epidemiology at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE).

The researchers found that those with a higher body mass index (BMI) were at a greater risk of dying during the 10 - year study than normal - weight people.

Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which the body's blood sugar levels rise higher than normal because your body doesn't use insulin properly.

Cortisol concentrations are highest in the early morning around 6 8 a.m. and they are also elevated after exercise (a normal part of your body's response to exercise).

At higher - than - normal blood sugar levels, Maillard reactions start to accellerate, and sticky gunk builds up faster than the body can clean it up.