More than 26 percent of Americans are obese, defined as having a body
mass index of 30 or higher.
In Victoria, Texas, the Citizens Medical Center has implemented a hiring policy that is «virtually unheard of» in the medical field: All potential employees must have a body
mass index of less than 35.
A 2007 Ohio State University study measured the body
mass index of several thousand kindergarteners and first - graders at different points over a two - year period.
Paleo recently has been shown to stall in weight loss efforts for women: many women can not get to a body
mass index of 23 or lower.
To be included women needed to have mild to moderate depressive symptoms, have a body
mass index of < 30kg / m2, a report a sedentary lifestyle and no involvement in yoga practice.
It significantly reduced the body weight and body
mass index of the patients.
She would be on the extreme end of a low fat free
mass index of about 11 FFMI.
She put folks on the Wahls protocol and once women hit a body
mass index of 23, they don't lose weight on paleo anymore.
They're only meant to be taken by obese people (those with a body -
mass index of at least 30) and overweight people with related health problems, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
Also, strive for a body
mass index of less than 25.
Table 1 lists sociodemographic characteristics and body
mass index of the three groups.
Craigslist is a free site for posting classified ads, from bicycles for sale to apartments for rent (and great volumes of personals and «missed connections,»
a mass index of urban loneliness and yearning).
Overweight is defined as having a body
mass index of 25 to 29; obese is having a BMI greater than 29.
The researchers studied 760 men and women with a body
mass index of greater than 25 from the Osteoarthritis Initiative, a nationwide research study focused on the prevention and treatment of knee osteoarthritis.
In 2014, more than 640 million men and women were obese (measured as a body
mass index of 30 or higher).
The risk of death was 18 to 36 percent lower for people in obese class I (a body
mass index of 30 - 34.9) compared with those of normal weight.
Compared with an employee with a body
mass index of 25, an employee with a BMI of 35, which is considered obese, has nearly double the risk of filing a short - term disability claim or a workers» compensation claim.
Fat cells cultured from the body
mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.
On average, they were about 46 years old and had an average body
mass index of 27, meaning they were normal to very overweight.
At 6 feet 3 inches tall, the president has a body
mass index of 29.9, which is just shy of officially being obese.
But the DoH wants the letters to refer to children with a body -
mass index of over 30 as «very overweight» rather than «obese» because the latter is «a turn - off».
At the end of 2012 James Peters, 39, a 5» 11» Native American driver, weighed close to 340 pounds, with a body -
mass index of 47.4.
Pregnant women with body
mass indexes of 30 or higher are more likely to require C - sections.
In addition, a comparison was made with the fat - free
mass indexes of champion bodybuilders, as presented in the work of Dr. E. M. Kouri, et.
Not exact matches
«The researchers also found that after taking into account the effect
of age and sex, morning people were likely to have lower — and thus generally more healthy — BMI, or body -
mass index, a measure
of the ratio between height and weight.»
The WHO estimates that in 2016 more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight, with more than 650 million
of these being obese — meaning a body -
mass index greater than or equal to 30.
Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975 and the World Health Organization estimates that in 2016 more than 650 million adults were obese - with a body
mass index (BMI)
of 30 or more.
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.
Most (59 %)
of these firms offer financial incentives for undergoing the screenings, and some (14 %) tie the incentives to meeting specific outcomes such as a targeted body
mass index (BMI) or cholesterol level.
Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «
mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500
Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate
of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit
of stock buybacks.
One
of Buffett's most controversial bets — a bubble - era wager on the long - term value
of stock market
indexes, using tools he once scorned as «weapons
of financial
mass destruction» — started to pay off in the fourth quarter.
Since the subject
of beard
mass index is a complicated one, I will restrict my comments to a few basic points.
Based on the body
mass index scale — which some experts are wary
of — people with BMI
of 30 and higher account for about 33 percent
of the adult population and about two - thirds
of American adults are obese or overweight.
In an ambitious project to assess the correctness
of Talcott Parsons» theory
of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated
masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part
of the world.7 He developed elaborate
indices (as
of 1960 wherever possible)
of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook
of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey
of Education.
The lower levels
of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use
of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results
of our study and the results
of recent studies
of the effect
of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body
mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.
In addition, an independent consumer research study commissioned by Freedom Foods Group noted statistically significant reductions in body weight, body fat and body
mass index (BMI), and decreased feelings
of anger when test subjects committed to a 28 - day Barley + Nutrition and Lifestyle Reboot Program; a by - product
of good nutrition and lifestyle.
However, results from both cohort studies52 53 and randomised controlled trials54 55 show that a high intake
of dairy products is not associated with an increase in weight or body
mass index despite a higher intake
of energy.
Covariates were age, total energy intake, body
mass index, height, educational level, living alone, calcium supplementation, vitamin D supplementation, ever use
of cortisone, healthy dietary pattern, physical activity, smoking status, and Charlson's comorbidity
index.
«We can compete with a 50 - pound
mass index disadvantage,» says Macy, «but a 100 - pound
mass index disadvantage is out
of our range.
The team support staff must closely monitor all players, instead
of only a particular focus on less fit, large players with an excessive body
mass index (BMI), for signs and symptoms
of developing heat - related injury during football practice or competition in stressful environments.
After adjusting for the mother's height, age, body
mass index and other factors, they found: - Mothers who drank more than 5 ounces
of milk a day had bigger babies, on average, than those who drank less.
The BMI, or body
mass index, was explicitly invented to compare large groups
of people.
The size
of your breasts can vary based on your body
mass index...
This old wives» tale has now been negated by research [v], which has shown that the main factors that contribute to breast ptosis are: age, history
of significant (> 50 lb) weight loss, higher body
mass index, larger bra cup size, number
of pregnancies and smoking history.
Women with a normal body
mass index (BMI)
of 18.5 to 24.9 need to gain a pound a week after the first trimester.
If you've read about fertility, you've probably heard that a woman's body
mass index (BMI) at the time
of conception, and indeed throughout the entire pregnancy, is an important factor not only in successfully getting pregnant but also in maintaining fetal health.
found that kids who slept less than the suggested daily number
of hours tended to show «higher values
of BMI, body fat, waist and hip circumferences and fat
mass index... [they] were more sedentary... and spent more time watching TV.»
Nearly one out
of three (31.9 %)
of US youth are either obese or overweight as measured by body
mass index (BMI).
Researchers randomly served 8 - ounce or 16 - ounce bowls to 69 preschoolers and found that the children with larger bowls requested 87 percent more cereal and milk, regardless
of their age, gender or body
mass index.
Wired at a young age: the effect
of caffeine and technology on sleep duration and body
mass index in school - aged children.