Body Mass Index

Critics demand a better health and wellness policy for Howard

2013-04-18 03:00:00

As a Columbia pediatrician, Henri Merrick regularly sees young patients who are significantly overweight. It's a trend she started noticing several years ago, and the weights of school-aged children began to cause her great concern. So three years ago,...

Anne Arundel County health briefs

2012-12-28 00:00:00

Exercise classes Baltimore Washington Medical Center will offer exercise classes at its campus, 301 Hospital Drive in Glen Burnie, and at BW Health Service, 7556 Teague Road in Hanover, starting Jan. 7. The 10-week session will offer beginning yoga,...

Pablo Sandoval an inspiration to fat guys everywhere

2012-10-25 12:29:00

The beauty of baseball is that even fat guys can play it, and play it well. It's the most democratic of sports. You can be chunky, you can be roly-poly, you can be out and out blubbery and still find a place in this game. I should know. I played it�for...

Health professionals look inward to tackle obesity

2012-08-03 13:06:00

Taylor DesRosiers was a competitive swimmer throughout her life, always fit. But in her first year of medical school, she realized that had changed — she was at an unhealthy weight. The rigors of her education had piled on top of two rough years in...

Howard County health briefs

2012-09-14 00:00:00

Look good, feel better The free program teaches beauty techniques to women with cancer to help them combat appearance-related side effects of treatment. Participants receive a bag of cosmetics donated by major manufacturers as well as instruction and...

Wellness program making inroads in Howard County

2012-09-06 14:48:00

Each day while getting dressed, Elkridge Elementary School para-educator Adrienne Grein slips on one of the most important items of her wardrobe — a pedometer, which is part of a popular health and wellness program that has become a hit in the...

Y to fight childhood obesity with new grant

2012-07-30 12:51:00

The Y of Central Maryland is expanding a childhood obesity program with a $280,000 grant from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. The two year grant from the region’s largest health insurer, will allow the Y of Central Maryland extend its Fit N Fun...

FDA approves new obesity drug

2012-06-27 13:59:00

The U.S. Food and Drug Administrationapproved a new drug Wednesday to help people battle chronic obesity. Used in conjuction with a healthy diet and exercise, the drug Belviq will help people lose weight by activating a receptor in the brain that will...

Belly fat most harmful to health

2012-08-28 11:10:00

Someone with a lot of belly fat has a higher risk of death than those who are obese, a new study suggests. "We knew from previous research that central obesity is bad, but what is new in this research is that the distribution of the fat is very important...

Considering bariatric surgery? Read this first

2012-07-11 11:31:57

Often, those who are very overweight have tried dieting for years before giving up in frustration. But more obese people are turning to bariatric surgery to jump-start their weight-loss programs. The surgery is low-risk but isn't for everyone. It...

Getting doctors to practice what they preach

2012-06-21 09:55:23

It's ironic that the year we, both new medical students, moved across the street from the nation's best hospital and began learning how to manage the health of others is the same year we stopped taking care of our own. It was a year of ups and downs....

Optimizing nutrition after breast cancer treatment

2011-09-30 07:43:00

Many cancer patients end treatment underweight. Post-treatment breast cancer patients, however, often end up overweight. This can sometimes be attributed to medications such as steroids or chemotherapy. Or the patient is overweight to begin with. Losing...

Alex Moore, 14, has his height and weight measured this month to help calculate his body mass index, which Chute Middle School in Evanston uses to estimate a student’s body fat.

2013-05-16 19:39:03

In a study, post-surgical patients with a BMI of 35.3 or higher, well into the obese range, died at a far lower rate than those considered normal weight.

2011-11-21 13:41:41

is a measure of weight relative to height. Though it's an imperfect measure of a healthy weight, it does a good job of correlating with body fat. To calculate BMI, multiply your weight (in pounds) by 703, and divide that number by the square of your height (in inches).

2011-01-28 14:16:07

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