All of a sudden, in a blink of an eye, it all ends up forming between your organs, and deep within your abdominal cavity, it secretes proteins that can really trigger chronic inflammation that is horribly known for putting people at risk for major heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer. Know how belly fat weight […]
Asking how much do you weigh, to a teenager. No problem.
Comments about teens who self report height weight and body mass index An adolescent’s self-reported height and weight, is OK to use in calculating BMI and judging obesity. Their study found 96% of teens were correctly classified as obese or not obese, using the 95th percentile cutoff values of the CDC growth charts. Neither teens […]
When you get older, having higher BMI is a good thing.
Comments about body mass index elderly cutoffs This article has an impressive sample size of elderly women, age 60 to 88 years. Their data graphed looks like this, showing body fat percentage versus Body Mass Index. A couple of points about this graph. They used a linear trend line, but a curving line would have […]
Bush Hawk XP pictures from FSX
These beautiful images of the Bush Hawk XP are actually screencaptures from Microsoft Flight Simulator, featuring the Aerosoft add-on model of the Bush Hawk. Aren’t these stunning! I was worried that they’d get forgotten on the forum where they were originally posted, so I gathered them up here. In 2008 I was looking for ideas […]
Wearing pokadot pajamas, reading this.
Comments and Key points This article has data concerning the body fat percentages of non-European rural persons from several different regions of the world. Unfortunately, it’s quite difficult to learn anything really specific or definitive from their article. For example, the graph below shows % body fat versus Body mass index, but the lines are […]
About me
Curriculum Vitae ofSteven Bruce Halls, MD, FRCPC Note to visitors. In the first half of my career, I was in an academic environment and used to keep my CV up to date. But in the second half of my career as a community radiologist, I’m neither academic or seeking new jobs, so I don’t keep […]
Defining by power name association
My summary. Body mass index cut off points were established via these publications This article has the most comprehensive summary of body mass index thresholds, to define obesity and overweight. It is an excellent source of references. It is available for viewing as free full text at http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/72/5/1074. However, as you read this article, it […]
Say its International to be unchallengable
Comments on children and adult Body mass index BMI cutoffs of overweight and obesity, regarding age 18 This article says "the International Task Force workshop… defining overweight and obesity at childhood percentiles that correspond to the adult values… 25 and 30 kg/m2 respectively, correspond to the 80th and 95th percentiles of the National Center for […]
Does dis data do, asked Dave, who?
Body Mass Index screening in Children and adolescents, done in a scientific way. Fabulous article. Although it’s based in Australia, one of its conclusions is that the CDC overweight criteria for Americans, is also suitable for Australia. The article supports the CDC criteria for children, using the 85th percentile of BMI for defining "at risk […]
Body Mass Index of children from Scotland and France
Comments about this study of the body mass index of children and centile charts I’ve included this article in my collection, because it shows charts of body mass index of children, comparing Scottish and French populations. The French data is older (1956-1979) whereas the Scottish data is newer ( 1989-1991), so the charts really show […]
