Sentences with phrase «weight as an indicator»

And the focus on weight as an indicator of health is dangerous for thin people as well as healthy ones.

Not exact matches

After all, seven in 10 U.S. adults already track at least one health indicator such as weight, diet or a symptom of a condition, according to a 2013 survey from Pew Research.

Moreover, about 60 % of the weight in the LEI is based on monetary indicators such as M2 growth and interest rates.

Now, in hindsight, had I given this indicator maximum weight during the recent advance, we might have been as much as 40 % unhedged on the signal rather than 20 %.

In the last two months the overwhelming weight of the evidence supports this view, as the following indicators have either come in below expectations or suffered an actual downturn: core durable goods orders, the Chicago Fed National Activities Index, new home sales, existing home sales, payroll employment, the NFIB Small Business Index, construction spending, the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index, the Kansas City Fed Index, the Philadelphia Fed Survey, industrial production, the Empire State Manufacturing Index, the NAHB Housing Index, the ADP payrolls, auto sales, real disposable income and the GDP.

In their May 2015 paper entitled «Lumber: Worth Its Weight in Gold: Offense and Defense in Active Portfolio Management», Charles Bilello and Michael Gayed examine the recent relative performance of lumber (a proxy for economic activity via construction) and gold (a safe haven) as an indicator of future stock market and bond market performance.

As long - term indicators carry more weight, the golden cross indicates a bull market on the horizon and is reinforced by high trading volumes.

One of the two groups of the study also showed that using liquid meal replacements instead of food actually affected more weight loss as well as a greater reduction of the risk indicators of heart disease than the intermittent fasting diet with food.

We measured stability with two equally weighted indicators: the number of years people remain in their homes and the percentage of homeowners with negative equity (as homeowners with negative equity are more likely to go into foreclosure).

The all - encompassing focus on weight as the most important indicator of health, and the stifling atmosphere of fat - shaming around it, isn't just foolish; it can also be dangerous — as many overweight people have found when trying to get medical attention for an illness, only to hear that their weight is the be-all, end - all of their problems.

(E.g. Healthy newborn exams immediately after birth that are not done skin - to - skin with mom, bathing the baby soon after delivery, reliance on baby's weight alone as the indicator of successful breastfeeding.)

Because, unfortunately, most of the times the packaging doesn't show density, you can use weight as a good indicator.

Your baby's weight is the biggest indicator as to whether or not he's drinking enough milk.

Hickman pinpoints pregnancy weight gain as the biggest indicator of how fast a new mom will drop the baby weight, rather than whether she breastfeeds or not.

As an IBCLC, I try to assess each of these factors and not just the weight gain as the sole indicator for a baby's overall wellnesAs an IBCLC, I try to assess each of these factors and not just the weight gain as the sole indicator for a baby's overall wellnesas the sole indicator for a baby's overall wellness.

While it can be helpful to track diaper output on a daily basis between regular checkups, diaper output alone can not substitute for an accurate weight and other indicators of good milk intake, such as alertness, responsiveness, and growth in length and head circumference.

Your health care provider will use any weight you put on during this time as an indicator of the growth of your baby and will also help to look for potential problems.

Weight can be an indicator of quality, as heavier units are often made of stainless steel, but lighter units offer greater portability.

Maharaj will enroll people who are between the ages of 55 and 95 and who demonstrate several indicators of frailty such as exhaustion and weight loss.

The findings — featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)-- are a concern as body mass and weight gain during pregnancy are important indicators of maternal health.

For most patients — including actor Patrick Swayze, who died this week as a result of this aggressive malignancy — abdominal pain, weight loss and jaundice are the disease's first indicators, and their onset usually occurs after the cancer has metastasized, erasing any possible benefit of surgery.

Disordered eating among 24 - year - old women and men was an indicator of higher body weight, larger waist circumference and lower psychological wellbeing as well as a lower self - evaluation of general health both at age 24 and ten years later.

The team documented important developmental indicators such as weight and size, searched for signs of inflammation and compared the oxygen saturation of the blood.

Love handles are recognized by physicians as an indicator of an imbalance in cortisol and insulin levels, which is why carrying weight around your gut is considered to be worse for your health than storing fat around your thighs.

The results showed weight loss as well as improved indicators of cholesterol and insulin response.

Ketones are just indicators - as long as you see some results (weight loss or other), you're doing great!

Your level of body fat is a good indicator of whether you should lose weight or gain lean muscle mass, so instead of using the BMI (which does not measure level of body fat) you should be using more accurate methods to measure your body fat and fat - free mass (known as body composition).

One of the two groups of the study also showed that using liquid meal replacements instead of food actually affected more weight loss as well as a greater reduction of the risk indicators of heart disease than the intermittent fasting diet with food.

And, while there are several indicators of this (such as weight loss, suppressed appetite, and increased focus) the most accurate way to determine whether or not you're in a state of ketosis is by measuring ketone levels in either blood, urine, or breath.

This is why it is recommended that you take measurements if you are trying to lose weight as the scale may not always be a true indicator of how well you are doing.

I feel like maybe a magazine article about a single woman's opinion doesn't quite hold the same weight in a debate as the body of medical research done over the decades pointing to plants as the dietary indicator of health and longevity, across all factors like gender, nationality, or level of activity.

Is there any discussion in the article regarding other measurements of health besides Type 2 Diabetes (especially since the majority of the scientific community now knows better than to use BMI as an indicator of health or «ideal weight»)?

Looking at your family history can also be an indicator of potential weight issues during menopause, as a genetic predisposition to weight gain at this time is common.

(Although, perhaps as an indicator of this particular work's weight, Allen alludes to Shakespeare's famous line from «Macbeth» about a «tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing» early on.)

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

ECAA: States must establish «a system of annually identifying and meaningfully differentiating among all public schools in the State» that include student proficiency and graduation rates, in significant part, plus at least one other «valid and reliable indicator of school quality,» but states are free to weight factors as they choose and omit student growth.

If the SQSS indicators are important signs of school performance, as the law suggests they are, they should be accorded a meaningful weight in the process of identifying schools for support and improvement.

The report is based on indicators that measure a child's success from birth to adulthood, such as birth weight, academic performance, teen pregnancy and family income level.

This is particularly important as illustrated in the prior post (Footnote 8 of the full piece to be exact), because «Teacher effectiveness ratings were based on, in order of importance by the proportion of weight assigned to each indicator [including first and foremost]: (1) scores derived via [this] district - created and purportedly «rigorous» (Dee & Wyckoff, 2013, p. 5) yet invalid (i.e., not having been validated) observational instrument with which teachers are observed five times per year by different folks, but about which no psychometric data were made available (e.g., Kappa statistics to test for inter-rater consistencies among scores).»

On the other hand, in order to comply with ESSA, states may use additional academic subjects such as science and social studies as the second academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, or as an indicator of school quality or student success for any schools, according to initial feedback from the Education Department.26 The analysis in this brief excludes these measures when identifying and weighting measures of school quality or student success.

As a result, indicator weightings should reflect a state's goals for student learning.

This flexibility, though, is limited by the existing ESSA regulations, as the weighting of nonacademic indicators can not be used to remove a school from a low performance designation.28

As in the elementary and middle school example index, states could include subgroup performance by allocating each subgroup a percentage weighting of each indicator.

States are supposed to give separate, «substantial weight» to student achievement, graduation rates, English - language proficiency and another academic indicator, as well as an indicator of school quality or student success.

As a result, indicators with a greater weight will have a larger impact on the total.

Some of these indicators can be non-academic, but some must be academic, and the academic indicators must be given «in the aggregate much greater weight» as compared to the school quality indicator.

The union's plan would be to assign each student a «Creativity indicator» score based on, «the weighted sum of students» ability to utilize interdisciplinary knowledge to address questions and challenges, simulate situations to estimate outcomes, explore new innovative approaches to interests and issues, research and design or develop new ideas and scored as determined by the commission on student learning and school quality...» According to the union plan, 15 percent of a school's performance index would be based on the cumulative student creativity indicator scores.

«It's important to have that third party verification of the students» achievement and career readiness,» said Hoffman, «and also that career - ready is weighted at a much higher value as an indicator over simply course completion, or even half the weight of completion in terms of holding schools accountable for the opportunities they're successful in providing students.»

I view valuation on forward earnings as the single best indicator of sentiment since it is dollar and trade - weighted.

Volume acts as an indicator giving weight to a market move.