It also recently launched its Wi-Fi Smart Scale, which transmits your weight, body fat and body mass index to the cloud.
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"The investigators examined changes in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and then its association with change in body fatness or BMI (body mass index), and subsequent deaths from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, " says Rachel Johnson, professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington and chair of the American Heart Assocation's Nutrition Committee, who was not involved in the study.
Jain also gets his patients to use a body weight tracker called BMI by NutriSystem to track their body mass index, since depression is a mind-body disorder.
And we're going to put you on the scale to test your body mass index.
Nearly one-third (31%) of us are clinically obese (body mass index of 30% or more).
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They specifically looked at a subset of 20 patients with a body mass index over 35.
Alli is only available to people with a body mass index of 28 or higher.
Zooming-out, she views a wall on which historical graphs of cholesterol and body mass index are projected.
Calculating your body mass index and measuring your waist are great ways to keep on track.
The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
Several other diseases have been linked to the gene but also to having a high body mass index.
Body Mass Index is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
They had an average body mass index of 28, which is considered overweight.
The cost of treating obese patients rises as their body mass index increases.
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Differences in gender, body mass index or whether a person was living alone did not affect the risk factor, they said.
Women who smoke, have a body mass index above 30 or have a history of gynecologic problems are ineligible to donate.
My lean body mass index showed more fat than my weight suggested.
Patients are weighed and measured, to work out their body mass index.
They measured height, weight and body mass index - calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
Only half said they would use Body Mass Index to decide if older children or adolescents were underweight, as advised in international guidelines.
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Among the obesity services that will be covered are screenings to determine a person's body-mass index, as well as other detection and counseling services.
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By controlling for individual and environmental influences on weight, such as income and health, they then measure whether food-price changes affect body-mass index (BMI).
Body Mass Index (BMI) is mostly a very dependable way of estimating body fat, especially for people between the ages of 19 and 50.
Activities will include rowing, canoeing and cycling as well as opportunities for the shoppers of Norwich to get their Body Mass Index (BMI) measured.
What's more, the body mass index (BMI) of overweight people tended to rise as the gap between their weekday and weekend "time zones" widened.
Not surprisingly, the researchers found a clear relationship between the adolescents' body mass index and their likelihood of having risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
This week, Israel passed a law banning models from advertisements or fashion shows if they measure less than 18.5 on the body mass index (BMI).
An increased risk of diabetes was also linked to drinking artificially sweetened soft drinks, but this disappeared when body mass index was taken into account.
In all 31% of patients were obese - that is with a body mass index of 30 or more - they reported in Preventive Medicine.
Here are the alarming facts about obesity in the U.S.: Nearly one-third (31%) of Americans are clinically obese (Body Mass Index of 30 or more).
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