Body Fat Index News
BMI plays key role in tracking your healthSunday, August 1, 2010 @ 2:03AMBMI stands for Body Mass Index and is calculated using your height and weight, a screening tool to identify weight problems. BMI is a fairly reliable indicator of body fat for most adults, with the exception of athletes and the elderly.
How to detect malnutrition in patients effectively?Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 11:22AMMalnutrition is a common problem in patients with cancer and is associated with a poor outcome. The assessment of nutritional status and its evaluation plays an important role in tailoring nutritional support. A study from South Korea evaluates the relationships between objective and subjective nutritional assessment of gastric cancer patients and suggests that a specific tailored nutritional ...
How to detect malnutrition in patients effectively?Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 8:31AM( World Journal of Gastroenterology ) Malnutrition is a common problem in patients with cancer and is associated with a poor outcome. The assessment of nutritional status and its evaluation plays an important role in tailoring nutritional support. A study from South Korea evaluates the relationships between objective and subjective nutritional assessment of gastric cancer patients and suggests ...
Mystery of healthy fat people: Why some obese people go on to become diabetic while others do notThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:20AMIt is common to find obese people – even morbidly obese people – who are healthier than their condition would normally allow. Working with subjects with a body mass index of about 56, a team of researchers investigated the inflammatory and insulin signaling pathways in the patients’ visceral adipose tissue.
Small changes now can yield big health rewardWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:17AMA new report from Harvard Medical School says middle-aged and older women need to worry about particular health concerns — osteoporosis, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and microvascular disease, a type of heart disease more common in women. The...
