Category: BMI

JGrimes
Blocking your kids’ access to TV and the computer could help them shed weight, an experiment tested in a recent study showed.
The study, published in the current issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, involved 70 children aged 4 to 7 years whose body mass index (BMI) was at the 75th percentile […]

JP
In the confusing jumble of studies on weight and health, there’s been a particularly perplexing wrinkle. Why is it that being overweight doesn’t raise your overall risk of dying from disease, but being obese or underweight does?
A study, published in JAMA sheds some light on the seeming paradox. Federal researchers combing health statistics […]