Sentences with phrase «overweight category»

Parents did not report significant differences in the psychosocial summary scores across weight categories, while children reported a significant decrease in the psychosocial summary score between the not overweight category and the obese category.

True or false: You shouldn't worry about a 2 - year - old who's in the overweight category on the growth chart.

From 2003 to 2013, the BMI linked to the lowest mortality was 26.7 for those 60 and younger and 27.3 for those over 60, which is just inside the overweight category.

«From a practical point,» Comuzzie said, the average weight gain «means that someone who was on the high end of normal weight would have likely moved into the overweight category, and those at the high end of the overweight category would have likely moved into the obese category.»

«This study suggests individuals even with a body mass index in the normal or overweight category but who have increased abdominal mass — a pot belly — may be at increased cardiovascular risk,» Fonarow said.

So is it really any wonder that the United States is the fattest of 33 countries, with a whopping 75 percent of Americans crowding into the overweight category?

So using the BMI you could have someone who has a high body fat % and they come out in the overweight category and this would be true for them but on the other hand you have a person who is the exact same height and weight but they are an athlete and they are also put in the overweight category (which it is clear to anyone who is looking at them that they are not).

And, believe it our not my BMI at the time was over 26 (I weighed between 173 and 175), and I was in the overweight category.

In many cases their weight may stay in the overweight category.

According to the CDC, the average American adult woman weighs 164 pounds and has a BMI of 28, putting her squarely in the overweight category.

With more pets falling into the overweight category than ever before, retailers need to stock and promote weight loss products.

Some estimates have already put over half of American dogs in the overweight category.