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...authors of the study were particularly interested in monitoring children with a body mass index (BMI) between the 50th and 84th percentile, who, by physicians’ and researchers’ standards, are classified as being in the high end of the normal weight range...
...from Göteborg University in Sweden and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee followed nearly 300 women over a period of 24 years and then, when the women were between the ages of 70 and 84, performed C.T. scans on their brains. Not surprisingly, body-mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height) increased as the women aged. In addition, the women with the highest BMI turned out to be the most likely to have suffered atrophy, or wasting, of the temporal lobes of the brain. In fact, the researchers found that for every 1-point rise...
...foreign markets, the local convention authority has offices in Germany - which sent nearly 100,000 visitors to the city in 2003 - as well as Australia, Japan and South Korea. International air service to Vegas' McCarran Airport has more than doubled in the past year. Last week, Britain's bmi airline announced that, from Oct. 31, it will fly nonstop three times a week to Vegas from Manchester, England. So it's no surprise that MGM Mirage announced last week that its second-quarter profits nearly doubled from 2003. According to Joseph Greff of Fulcrum Global Partners, room rates...
...promising direction. Just two decades ago, the incidence of overweight in adults was well under 50%, while the rate for kids was only a third what it is today. From 1996 to 2001, 2 million teenagers and young adults joined the ranks of the clinically obese (see "What Is BMI?"). People are clearly worried. A TIME/ABC News poll released this week shows that 58% of Americans would like to lose weight, nearly twice the percentage who felt that way in 1951. But only 27% say they are trying to slim down--and two-thirds of those aren't following...
...added that his findings on dietary magnesium intake were independent of BMI and thus would not have changed with a different BMI index. He defended his study as possibly more accurate than the WHS study because of the larger pool of participants in the NHS group...