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).
Ms. Coury said Arizona officials hadn't yet finalized how they would determine whether a person was obese or had sufficiently followed a wellness plan, but that measures such as body-mass index could provide some guidance.
In fact, an experiment showed that greater Facebook use was associated with a higher body-mass index and increased binge eating, as well as a lower credit score, and higher levels of credit card debt for consumers with many close friends in their social network.
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Mischel and his colleagues continued to track the subjects into their late thirties Ozlem Ayduk, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, found that low-delaying adults have a significantly higher body-mass index and are more likely to have had problems with drugs but it was frustrating to have to rely on self-reports.
Jackson won't reach her goal weight of 164 pounds -- a healthy body mass index for her 5-foot-8 frame -- by her birthday in February.
In all 31% of patients were obese - that is with a body mass index of 30 or more - they reported in Preventive Medicine.
They measured height, weight and body mass index - calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
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.
The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
The findings come from a study of nearly 1, 000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI) - a measure of obesity.
It found every 10% rise in body mass index (BMI) - used as an indicator of body fat - led to a 4% drop of available vitamin D in the body.
Commenting on the results, Dr Matthew Hobbs, head of research at Diabetes UK, said the link between sugar-sweetened soft drinks and Type-2 diabetes persisted even when body mass index was taken into account.
Unfortunately, the recent Journal of the American Medical Association publication analyzing life expectancy correlations to one imperfect calculation of relative weight (BMI, the body mass index) distracts readers all-too-eager to cling to its implications that being chubby is actually better.
The FDA approved Qsymia only for obese people or for overweight people with a body mass index greater than 27 who also suffer from weight-related conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
Nearly one-third (31%) of us are clinically obese (body mass index of 30% or more).
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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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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).
Zooming-out, she views a wall on which historical graphs of cholesterol and body mass index are projected.
"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.
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