Liquid diet supplements can work, like any diet that gives you more calories than you use. But the consequences may not last. When you intensely cut calories, your metabolism delays to save energy. Unless you adjust your eating habits, you are likely to attain the weight you lost after you go off the diet. Some […]
Changing with experience.
Weight, height and body mass index distributions in geographically and ethnically diverse samples of older persons. An incredibly useful article. They showed that BMI and body measures decline (get smaller) in older adults from age 60, to 70, to age 80. Height declines, weight declines, and body mass index declines. This happens worldwide. But most […]
What is BMI
This post will look at the Body Mass Index bmi difference between men and women. BMI or body mass index, is one of those acryonyms that became popular many decades ago. The BMI measurement is a way to decide if a person is too fat or carries too much weight for their height. Back then, […]
Weight Loss Tips: Five of the Best
Latest scientific research is beginning to show that making small changes to your lifestyle and diet may be more effective, both in the short and long term, than the ‘all or nothing’ approach to weight loss that has preoccupied so many of us for so long. For this reason, Moose and Doc have developed these […]
Weight loss tips for during the fall!
It’s a fantastic time to get your rear in gear and begin accomplishing your weight loss setting goals. Honestly, could there be a more excellent time to go for a run outside? You do not need to bundle up in your Polar Vortex accessories just yet, and you do not necessarily need to carry along […]
Contact us and Privacy Policy
Hello. I’m Dr. Halls, and I am a real person, Steven B Halls, MD, FRCPC, born in 1960. The halls.md website began in 1999, and in 2014 I began modernizing the look and calling it Moose and Doc. This website has its major focus on body mass index, ideal weight, body surface area, breast cancer, […]
Average Height for Girls
Questioning your girl’s height? Has a growth spurt come early, or late? What is the average height for girls? These are common questions. The average height for girls, is shown as the thick line on the chart. More discusson follows afterward. Average Height of Girls Chart Created by Steven B. Halls, MD, FRCPC and John […]
Body Mass Index and Body Fat Percentages in Asians
It is quite interesting that Asian body fat percentage has lower body mass index (BMI) but higher percentage of body fat than do whities. This article has equations to predict Asian body fat percentage, based on body mass index, race and gender. When graphed, they look like this, showing little difference in women, but a […]
My favorite Heritage
Body Mass Index Versus Body Fat Percentage There has been much debate between the benefits of Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement as opposed to body-fat percentage scores. So, whilst body mass index bmi takes into account body weight and height, body fat percentage measures the body composition. That is, in other words, the fat […]
Fatness and body mass index and being mean with cutoffs
Comments and Key points The authors made an assumption that I disagree with. They set their BMI cut-off values to maximize sensitivity for obesity, by saying: "sensitivity is given more importance than specificity since a false positive is not considered as serious as a false negative." Paraphrased, this means they think it is more acceptable […]
Body mass index sketches from super slim to super obese
This interesting article proved that these body mass index drawings, "figures" in the picture below1, are actually useful. People can describe themselves accurately by choosing a picture. Go ahead, try it yourself. From that, they can basically know their approximate BMI. Cool.
Clearly
Examples of 0% fatty mammogram density To explain the pictures below, they are shown as examples of fatty mammogram breast images. If you are able to obtain your own mammograms, and compare them to these examples, you may be able to figure out your own mammographic density. Although these examples show some pictures that look […]
Fatty musculey differences between ethnic groups
What differences are there between race and ethnic groups regarding body fat, body mass index? This article is a tour-de-force summary of many of the reasons why different racial group/ethnicities/nationalities should have different BMI overweight criteria. Below are some excerpts that I found useful, when I searched for race-specific Body Mass Index adjustments for Black […]
Hitchhikers Guide, a towel, and
Ideal weight formulas by Broca and Devine About arithmetic formulas for calculating ideal weight The history of the formulas for calculating ideal body weight began in 1871 when Dr. Pierre Paul Broca4 (a French surgeon) created this formula ( known as Broca’s index): Weight (in kg) should equal Height( in cm) – 100, plus or […]
What is the Ideal Weight? The Science behind the calculator
The science behind the “Peoples Choice” Ideal Weight formula. By Steven B. Halls, MD Back to the Ideal Weight calculator The “Peoples Choice” formula for Ideal Weight was designed by Dr. SB Halls. Its origins and justification are described on this page. The formula tries to predict what other similar people would choose as […]
Listless
Body Mass Index topic pages In a departure from the simplicity of an old sitemap that only lists local pages, I am led to believe that having some external links to authority pages, such as the CDC body mass index page, would benefit my own major internal pages such as my own: Advanced Body Mass […]
Don’t body mass index too hard
Using data from a dual energy absorptiometry study, to analyse BMI body mass index cutoffs A study of Switzerland hospital employees, of mean age 38.1, had male mean BMI of 21.7 and female mean BMI of 21.6. That’s an extraordinarily weird, too low, non-representative sample. You should ignore their abstract. They defined obesity, based on […]
I’m sorry, say Canadians, for boring with statistics
A big study of Canadians BMI, and does body mass index affect health? This article used the standard WHO criteria1 for body mass index, defining BMI > 25.0 as "overweight" and BMI>30.0 as "obese". However, the article mentions a specific Canadian BMI criteria, which is BMI<20.0 is "underweight", BMI >25.0 is "some excess weight", and […]
4 Tips to lose an intense amount of pounds fast!
How to Lose Weight Extremely Fast If you, like many of us, would like to give yourself a bit of a boost by kick starting your weight loss and seeing rapid results – without hitting boot camp – then here are a few tips to do just that. Follow these easy rules to lose pounds […]
Problems with BMI: Thoughtful Criticism
Comments and body mass index review To summarize this article’s criticisms of Body Mass Index as a classifier of obesity: 1. Aging With aging, body fat increases and muscle diminishes. Body weight and Body Mass index can stay stable during these changes. This chart comes from Cohn1, illustrating that body weight (and BMI) were stable, […]
Green Tea Weight Loss: Fact or Fiction?
Have a cup of Green Tea Green tea weight loss has become all the rage recently but green tea consumption is not a new phenomenon, in fact green tea drinking can be traced back to China over 4,000 years ago. Green tea has been hailed as one of the healthiest drinks on the planet, with […]
How to Lose Weight Fast
Getting Started In this post we are going to accumulate all the knowledge learnt along the way on the Halls.md site about how to lose weight fast. If you are interested in losing weight and want the most recent scientifically-proven advice, then you have come to the right place. To achieve a healthy weight it […]
A publicity release
This is a copy of a news article from 1999. A new method of calculating breast cancer risk can help doctors predict a woman’s risk of developing an invasive form of the cancer, results of a new study suggest. The technique "can provide useful information to women who may be contemplating the risks and benefits […]
Religion and Obesity
– Overview – All over the world, there are hundreds of millions of people that struggle with being overweight. For the first time in the history of the world, more people are dying each year from being overfed rather than underfed. There are a variety of different factors that can cause weight gain ranging from […]
Weight Loss Motivation by Moose and Doc
The most basic of Google searches on the topic of weight loss presents us with an overwhelming array of fad diets and guaranteed techniques to lose weight. Thus, it is very easy to get lost in a fog of contradictory and sometimes misleading, information. So, how do we get motivation for weight loss? It is […]
Trickery happened to set these important thresholds.
Comments and average body mass index for men, for women, and BMI cut off points for overweight and obesity This is the publication that banished the old BMI criteria, and established new Body Mass Index criteria, for the definitions of overweight and Obesity at 25 and 30 kg/m2 respectively. This article mentions the older BMI […]
Fool me twice
The "Metropolitan Life" tables. By Steven B. Halls, MD,FRCPC In 1943, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company introduced their standard height-weight tables for men and women. The tables were revised slightly in 1983. They were called "desirable" weights, which would indicate those persons with the lowest mortality rates4. The phrase “ideal weight5” gradually became associated with […]
About weight percentile calculation
This post is all about weight percentile calculation and BMI percentile I made this page because I occasionally receive emails from parents of small children, wondering why the BMI calculator classifies their child as overweight or obese and yet the Weight Percentile value didn’t seem overweight. Back to the BMI and Weight percentile calculator The […]
Shed pounds now with this four day diet!
The foods on the four day diet are loaded with healthy nutrients, but very low in calories. Hence, you will get all the fiber, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals you and your body needs. You may also find yourself feeling satisfied on fewer calories. Below you will find a few amazing meal plans for weight loss. […]
Figure this
References and formulas used by the Body Surface Area Calculator. The Body Surface Area formula. Below are the body surface area formula by Dr’s Mosteller, DuBois and DuBois, Haycock and Boyd. The Mosteller formula1 BSA (m2) = SQRT( [Height(cm) x Weight(kg) ]/ 3600 ) e.g. BSA = SQRT( (cm*kg)/3600 ) or in inches and pounds: BSA […]
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