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 […]
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is an exaggeration of normal worries and anxieties. This anxiety disorder can be quite devastating. The anxiety and worry about everyday events are often all-consuming and affect every aspect of daily life. Many of us worry about the stresses and strains of daily life. We worry about money, the children, the […]
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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 […]
The HCG Diet: Hype, Controversy and Gonads
The surprising news about the HCG diet is that it is nothing new at all, having been around for almost 60 years. However, it is only for the past 8 years that the hcg diet plan has had a huge resurgence and continued to grow in popularity. As always, Moose and Doc will offer a […]
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 […]
The Anxiety Diet: Top Foods to Eat to STOP Anxiety
In the modern world, most of us have higher levels of anxiety than is either natural or healthy for us. From the excessive worriers and ruminators to those with a full-blown anxiety disorder diagnosis, it is safe to say that anxiety is on the increase. Indeed, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates that […]
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.
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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 […]
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