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Check your Body Mass Index |
BMI, or body mass index, is an indirect measure of body fat in a person. Because the calculation only requires two pieces of information -- height and weight -- it is an inexpensive and easy method used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems such as diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. Calculating BMI can help determine if a person is overweight or obese; these calculations are often used in conjunction with other measurements (such as waist circumference) to assess a person's weight.
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What Is BMI?
The UAE records one of the highest rates of obesity in the world, higher than the US. Over 100 million adult Americans are overweight or obese. Being overweight or obese increases a person's chances for developing serious health problems, especially heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. How does someone know if they are overweight or obese? Research on obesity has shown that a measurement called body mass index (or BMI for short) can be used to assess a person's level of body fat.
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Surgery to control diabetics! |
Weight loss surgery can be especially helpful to patients with diabetes and can even help them reverse the disease, Australian researchers reported.
They found that obese patients with diabetes who had weight loss surgery were five times more likely to get their disease under control than those who dieted -- probably because they lost more weight.
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Swine Flu Epidemic, epidemic of 1918 and Homeopathy |
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 Homeopathy was successful in treating the flu epidemic of 1918 and can provide answers to questions about the current Swine Flu.
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38% of US Adults Use Alternative Medicine |
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 Nearly 12 percent of children and teens in the United States are using unconventional healing therapies — from echinacea and fish oil, to herbs and yoga — to treat a variety of ailments, according to a first-of-its kind government survey.
Through interviews conducted in more than 30,000 households, researchers found that families were more likely to turn to these alternative approaches when they couldn't afford traditional care. Parents typically sought these unconventional remedies for chronic or hard-to-treat illnesses in children, such as back or neck pain, colds, anxiety or stress and attention deficit disorders.
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A study published in Diabetes Care analysed data on 13,475 pregnant women including 860 who developed gestational diabetes. Women drinking the most sugar-sweetened colas before becoming pregnant were 22 per cent more likely to develop gestational diabetes than women who drank the fewest sugar-sweetened colas.