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which would be classed as overweight and approaching obese. Although not a perfect measurement indicator, this BMI increase shows that obesity is rapidly and dangerously on the rise. Widespread obesity has numerous repercussions to not only theindividual, but the healthcare system and economic climate...
BMI is calculated as patient weight measured in kilograms (kg) divided by the square of patient height measured in meters (m), expressed as kg/m2. This correlates with adiposity. Obesity, as defined by BMI, correlates with morbidity and mortality. At the low end of the BMI spectrum, ...
Background Mothers encouraging their children to control their weight is problematic as it is associated with children???s body dissatisfaction and weight concerns as well as further weight gain. The aim of this study was to identify factors in children and mothers associated with mothers ...
Interestingly, if you have dental amalgams (silver fillings) ortitanium implants, this may make the wireless radiation from constantly wearing a digital fitness device even more problematic. According to Lina Garcia, DDS, DMD: When considering the numerous reasons for the increasing prevalence of chr...
Medical school taught me that “obesity” is a cause of morbidity and mortality, and that weight loss is its cure. I recorded patients’ BMIs and counselled them on weight-loss strategies, believing that I was helping them.
How problematic this is becomes clearer when looking at how AI (respectively the tech corporations who control AI) is transforming contemporary societies more and more into a rule of code. While regulation by AI is manifold, recent developments in Legal Tech and the widespread belief in Tech ...
(2015a) who seem to argue its use is problematic because it is, in a sense, synthetic and therefore unrealistic. This paper begins with a brief discussion of the APC identification problem, before outlining our explanation for why the HAPC model produces the results that it does under ...
— body acceptance may help you start to realize, “Maybe I do have a problematic relationship with food, even if I'm not thin.” EH: What are some other barriers to better prevention and treatment of eating disorders for people in bodies of all sizes? SA: Depending on their diagnosis...
but we’re not there yet in terms of what those screens look like. The goal of intervention is clear, though: As Volkow puts it in her JAMA Psychiatry commentary, we want “to alert people to problematic patterns of drug or alcohol use that do not (yet) meet the threshold of addiction...