Sentences with phrase «useful measure of health»

Note: Whilst BMI can be a useful measure of health for the general population it may not work for all especially individuals with more muscle mass, some athletes, and specifically body builders.

Whilst BMI can be a useful measure of health for the general population it may not work for all especially individuals with more muscle mass, some athletes, and specifically body builders.

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The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»

Using Twitter as a window into a community's collective mental state may provide a useful tool in epidemiology and for measuring the effectiveness of public - health interventions.

We just don't know which of these 40,000 things we're measuring are going to be the most useful for understanding health, and so maybe in the future you don't need to measure all 40,000.

Your waist - hip ratio is a simple and useful measure of fat distribution and can help determine overall health risk.

In a scientific review article published this year in the journal of Vascular Health and Risk Management the authors conclude: «Sibutramine, in conjunction with lifestyle measures, is a useful drug for reducing body weight and improving

The measures taken by Tokyo, one of the world's largest cities, to secure the health and safety of its citizens could become a useful model for other Asian countries.

Many recent news stories have covered health problems caused by indoor air quality, so monitoring devices that can measure temperature, humidity and levels of carbon dioxide and VOC (volatile organic compounds) can be useful in many offices and homes.

Although it is instructive to examine various different dimensions of parenting for associations with child health and health behaviours, it may also be useful to consider how a single composite measure of positive parenting is associated with health outcomes.

Physiological measures provide a useful complement to self - report indices of mental health and well - being.

These perspectives, which have informed distinct bodies of research in positive mental health, are less obvious in the literature relating to poor mental health, where items measuring affect (feeling happy / sad) are often combined with items measuring psychological functioning (playing a useful part in things, making decisions)[4] in the same scales, suggesting that poor mental health at least is accepted as involving limitations in both eudaimonic and hedonic well - being [5 — 7].