Feature articles on BMI: | 3/26/2009 - (NaturalNews) A study conducted in Sweden spanning almost four decades has suggested that overweight persons, and not just those who were obese, may also be subjected to increased risk of premature death. It also suggested that the adverse effects of...
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| 2/11/2009 - (NaturalNews) American people, who are overweight due to body fat and or abdominal fat, may now be able to lower their risk of having cancer naturally by changing their eating habits. Cancer is the second leading disease causing death in the US. Taking...
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 | 12/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Men who are obese have lower quality sperm than men of healthy weights, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and presented at the meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction...
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 | 12/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) People who are large around the middle are significantly more likely to die at a younger age than those with slimmer waists regardless of their overall body weight, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the National Institute...
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 | 11/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) You are already familiar with the health benefits of keeping your weight in check, but are you aware of the possible health risks associated with having belly fat? A recent study conducted by the German Institute of Human Nutrition and published...
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 | 10/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) Overeating is a self perpetuating habit which has devastating health effects. The habit sets off a series of events which short circuit the normal signals the body gives to regulate eating habits. All this leads to wide spread inflammation,...
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 | 8/30/2008 - (NaturalNews) The weight and consumption habits of the overweight and obese are worsening the pace of global warming, said two researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in a letter to the medical journal Lancet.
It takes more...
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 | 1/22/2007 - (NaturalNews) Results from a recent study yield stronger evidence to correlate fast food with increased body weight.
A collection of nearly 3,400 young adults were tested for a decade, and with each fast food meal they ingested, their body mass index...
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 | 1/17/2007 - (NaturalNews) According to a study by National Cancer Institute researchers, patients with prostate cancer have a greater chance of dying from the disease if they are overweight or obese.
Lead study author and research fellow with the Cancer Epidemiology...
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| 11/16/2006 - A number of studies over the years have found an association between obesity and pregnancy complications, including pre-eclampsia (hypertension), gestational diabetes and stillbirth, but there was little evidence of a direct, cause-and-effect relationship....
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| 10/24/2006 - Children who are overweight as toddlers or preschoolers are more likely to be overweight or obese in early adolescence, report researchers in a collaborative study by the NIH and several academic institutions.
The researchers periodically collected...
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| 10/19/2006 - Men with increased body mass index (BMI) were significantly more likely to be infertile than normal-weight men, according to research conducted at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the National Institutes of Health.
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 | 10/16/2006 - (NaturalNews) A new French study published in the October issue of the journal Neurology has found that obesity may cause cognitive decline over time.
French researchers from Toulouse University Hospital conducted a five-year study of more than 2,200...
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| 10/6/2006 - Older people with high waist-hip ratios (WHRs) have a higher mortality risk than those with a high body mass index, or BMI, a new study reveals.
Whereas justifiable attention is given to the increasing problem of obesity in the general population,...
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| 9/20/2006 - Children and adolescents in the U.S. and around the world are becoming more overweight. A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that there may be serious consequences to that trend. Researchers found that being overweight...
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| 9/13/2006 - Medical and pharmacy costs rise steadily for employees with above normal body weight, reports a study in the July Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine...
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| 9/5/2006 - Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and the Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, report for the first time how two behavioral lifestyle factors together alter the genetic susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration...
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| 8/31/2006 - A team at the Injury Research Center of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has found that being obese increases male drivers' risk of dying in a car crash, as does being very slim. However, being moderately overweight might help cushion the...
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| 8/29/2006 - Obesity in a patient is an independent predictor of whether localized prostate cancer will progress following radiotherapy treatment, say researchers at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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| 8/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) New research published in The Lancet medical journal suggests that the Body Mass Index (BMI) system of classifying body weight may be inaccurate for assessing the risk of dying prematurely from heart disease.
The BMI, which classifies...
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| 7/21/2006 - Recent studies suggest that testing blood for prostate specific antigen (PSA) alone does not produce an ideal predictor of prostate cancer, and emerging data suggest this is especially true for obese men. A recent study by Oregon Health & Science University...
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| 7/20/2006 - Children with type 1 diabetes who exercise regularly may have improved blood glucose levels compared with those who do not, and regular physical activity does not appear to increase the risk of severe hypoglycemia (low blood glucose levels), according...
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| 7/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) A study in the July issue of Diabetes Care shows that blacks, Asians and Hispanics in the United States run a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, but it is easier for those groups to reduce their diabetes risk through dietary changes than it...
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