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Lack of Sleep in Infants Leads to Obesity Later in Life

According to the conclusions of a new, small-scale scientific study, it would appear that toddlers who lose sleep during the early years of their lives are more prone to becoming obese later in life. The risk was found to be proportional to the amount of lost sleep, experts say. The study was carried out for several ...

30 May 2011
04:14 GMT

Anonymous Attacks Broadcast Music Incorporated

Anonymous hacktivist group has revived Operation Payback by launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against bmi.com, the website of Broadcast Music Incorporated.Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a US organization which collects music license fees and represents the interests of songwriters, composers and publish...

11 March 2011
06:26 GMT

Extra Weight Can Be Lost Along with Depression

A new research concluded that for many women dealing with depression and obesity, improving their mood is linked to them loosing weight. The study is actually based on past surveys that proved that having a body mass index of 30 or more, rises one's risk of depression by 50 to 150 percent. Lead author Greg...

11 December 2010
06:15 GMT

NIH Establishes Ideal Body Mass Index

A new analysis carried out by investigators from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – part of the National Institutes of Health, and collaborators from a dozen other major research institutions worldwide, concluded that healthy non-smoking adults with a body mass index (BMI) between 20.0 and 24.9 have the lowe...

2 December 2010
04:08 GMT

High Childhood BMI Linked to Teen Heart Disease Risk

Children with a high body mass index – BMI, between 9 and 12 years old, have a bigger risk of developing high blood pressure and insulin levels, as well as high cholesterol – all the characteristics of heart disease, by the time they become teenagers.The scientists who reached this conclusion are part of ...

26 November 2010
08:16 GMT

High Mortality Risk for Children with Extreme BMIs

A new study carried out by Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington, based on data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), concluded that children who are too thin or, on the contrary, obese, have higher mortality risks within the first year after liver transplantation...

29 October 2010
03:29 GMT

Measuring the Body's Volume Index

Finally, a more accurate and trust worthy method of measuring the risk factors associated with an individual's body shape and type, by analyzing their weight and body fat distribution, has been launched.This is the new and correct way to measure obesity nowadays, and identify people that are at risk of heart dis...

21 October 2010
02:55 GMT

The Bigger the Weight the Higher the Costs

A new study carried out by a Duke University obesity researcher shows that the cost of obesity for full-time employees in the United States has reached the huge amount of $73.1 billion.This research measured the cost of obesity among full-time workers for each individual, according to 3 factors: employee medical expe...

8 October 2010
10:11 GMT

Being Closer to Outdoor Recreation Gets you Fatter

A new study carried out by researchers at the University of Alberta concluded that the BMI of people who chose to move to be closer to outdoor recreation, had increased.Normally people who live near outdoor recreation facilities should get more physical exercise and have a lower body mass index that others but this n...

25 September 2010
05:55 GMT

Weight-Related Bullying Has Serious Consequences

A team of experts has recently determined that children who are bullied over their weight, especially in their preteen years, are highly susceptible of forming a very negative image of themselves and their bodies later on. This in turn opens the door for them to engage in abusive behaviors, such as for examples anore...

9 September 2010
10:26 GMT

Disparities in Obesity Rates of US Kids

A new study carried out by the University of California, San Francisco, concluded that obesity rates have started declining and stabilizing for many teenagers but there are still some racial and ethnic minorities that have increasing weight problems.Kristine Madsen, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UC...

16 August 2010
05:57 GMT

Your Fitness and Health Advisor

The fast-moving world we live in compels us to pay more and more attention to our wellbeing and this is due to the ever-increasing stress and pollution we are exposed to on a daily basis. The lack of physical exercise and poor alimentation contribute to the generation and propagation of health problems for individual...

21 September 2009
13:21 GMT

Nintendo Apologizes for Wii Fit BMI Offenses

Last week, we reported on the girl who was offended by the fact that the Wii Fit game considered her to be... a little above the recommended weight as it was constructed based on her other physical attributes. The story itself seems a bit on the fishy side but, nevertheless, the parents of other kids, presumably over...

20 May 2008
19:06 GMT

Wii Fit Says Girl Is Fat, Traumatizes Her

It seems that Nintendo's Wii Fit can be wrong every now and them and, what is even more disturbing for many people, it has adverse effects on users. At least that's the result of a young ten year-old girl who used the Wii Fit which told her that she was fat. Now, it wouldn't necessarily be a problem, s...

7 May 2008
15:06 GMT

Obese Employees Are More Costly

A big colleague costs more not only on the matter of space, but also in injury claims. A new research shows that obese workers presented a double rate of compensation compared to their fit counterparts. The 8 years research made by a team at Duke University on a pool of 11,728 subjects revealed that the fattest empl...

24 April 2007
06:40 GMT


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