What’s more useful than BMI? All you need to know about a 2000-year-old technique to measure body composition
Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of ...
Forget BMI—there's a 2,000-year-old technique for measuring body fat that's more useful
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
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Air pollution before conception may increase child BMI
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...
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Move aside BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
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Body mass index and weight change are associated with adult lung function trajectories: the prospective ECRHS study
We classified subjects into weight change profiles according to baseline body mass index (BMI) categories and weight change over 20 years. We estimated trajectories of lung function over time as a ...
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Sex differences in whole body skeletal muscle mass measured by magnetic resonance imaging and its distribution in young Japanese adults
Objectives: To determine sex differences in the distribution of regional and total skeletal muscle (SM) using contiguous whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, and to examine the relations ...
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Here’s How Much Protein You Need in a Day to Build Muscle
The current recommended dietary allowance (RDA) is 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight ... training is a reminder that muscle mass is not simply a product of protein intake.
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Body Frame Size Calculator
The ideal weight of a person depends on their skeletal frame size, which can be classified as Large, Medium, or Small, as bone size and density vary between individuals and genders. Before ...
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How to Calculate Your BMI (Body Mass Index)
How to Calculate BMI You can calculate your BMI using simple ... assessing health risks that can be used in place of (or in addition to) BMI, such as: Body mass index (BMI) is a calculation used to ...
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One of Assad’s mass graves is found, with as many as 100,000 bodies
For more than a decade, Bashar al-Assad’s army turned this wasteland into a mass grave—believed by Syria’s new rulers to be one of his largest. For years, earthmovers would arrive late at ...
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Hundreds of thousands of bodies could be buried in Syrian mass graves, advocacy group says
Syrians are starting to uncover mass graves across the country, shedding light on the magnitude of atrocities committed during the brutal rule of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. Since Assad fled ...