Body Mass Index

Smoke? Fat? Sedentary? Watch out for heart disease, study says

2013-06-04 16:03:00

It’s no surprise that someone who has never smoked, who eats a Mediterranean diet and keeps a normal weight and who exercises regularly is healthy. How healthy? Chances of death from all causes is reduced by 80% over eight years. Pretty healthy....

More gym for kids means less chance of obesity, Cornell study says

2013-05-21 16:07:00

More physical education in kindergarten through fifth grade means less chance of obesity, especially for boys, researchers say. The study provides some of the first evidence of a causal effect between gym and childhood obesity. It is to be published...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder linked to adult obesity

2013-05-20 13:44:00

Having childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could lead to a life of obesity, even if�ADHD symptoms disappear in adulthood, a new study shows. The study, which followed up on 207 middle-class men who had been diagnosed with ADHD as...

Jackson used vocal aid in concerts, choreographer says

2013-05-13 19:05:00

Michael Jackson sometimes sang during concerts accompanied by his own recorded vocal track to help him perform the most physically strenuous numbers, the choreographer for what was to be his comeback shows in London testified Monday. What is known as...

Food deserts may not be key in what people eat, study says

2013-03-27 06:00:00

There’s no strong evidence of an association between living within walking distance of places to buy food and being overweight or not, researchers said after interviewing nearly 100,000 Californians. Given the attention to the idea of food deserts...

Letters: The fine print of obesity surgery

2013-04-28 00:00:00

Re "What we should learn from the 1-800-GET-THIN saga," Column, April 21 Readers should not be left with the impression that patients who underwent weight-loss surgery after seeing an advertisement on a billboard were unaware of the risks. Those...

Food memories may aid weight loss, researchers say

2013-03-06 10:24:00

Dieters may want to forget episodes of falling off the wagon, but researchers say an attentive memory for what is eaten could help people eat less at their next meals. So sitting at a movie with a bucket of popcorn holding perhaps a day’s worth of...

Low-fat milk doesn't help toddlers' weight, study says UPDATED

2013-03-18 13:30:00

This post has been updated to include comments from a researcher and an American Heart Assn. spokeswoman. Giving toddlers skim or 1% milk to keep them from growing overweight doesn’t seem to work, according to a study out Monday that gives pause...

Nursing longer doesn't protect against obesity, study says

2013-03-13 11:49:00

Getting moms to nurse their babies longer and exclusively did not mean the kids were less at risk for obesity by the time they were 11-1/2 – despite suggestions from other studies that breastfeeding can protect against obesity, researchers in a...

Are only children to blame for the obesity crisis?

2013-02-20 14:30:00

A new study suggests an intriguing explanation for the rise in obesity rates — the growing number of only children. Researchers from Denmark analyzed health records of more than 29,000 Danish schoolchildren and found that boys and girls without...

Gap widens between actual weight and people's imagined weight

2013-01-24 10:08:00

Men and women, particularly those categorized as obese, have grown increasingly likely over the years to underestimate their true weight, according to a recent study. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers at University...

Diet myth-busters: Experts burst some bubbles about losing weight

2013-01-30 14:53:00

Attention dieters: Many of the “facts” you think you know about obesity and weight loss are wrong. So says a report published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. An international team of dietitians, doctors...

Alex Moore, 14, has his height and weight measured this month to help calculate his body mass index, which Chute Middle School in Evanston uses to estimate a student’s body fat.

2013-05-16 19:39:03

In a study, post-surgical patients with a BMI of 35.3 or higher, well into the obese range, died at a far lower rate than those considered normal weight.

2011-11-21 13:41:41

is a measure of weight relative to height. Though it's an imperfect measure of a healthy weight, it does a good job of correlating with body fat. To calculate BMI, multiply your weight (in pounds) by 703, and divide that number by the square of your height (in inches).

2011-01-28 14:16:07

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