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Thanks to Claire at Burning the Scale for tipping me off to to this set of 100 photos of real women labeled with their height, weight and body mass index, or BMI, number and category.
I love what she had to say about it in her post, excerpted in part:
I think this is trying to make […]
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reported earlier this year that overweight and obese women have longer labor and delivery times than women with healthy body weight when labor is induced.
The obese women also needed more medication — a dinoprostone vaginal insert — to activate labor, and it took longer for the medicine to […]
More on the debate concerning American Idol winner Jordin Sparks. MeMe Roth, president and founder of National Action Against Obesity, appeared on the Fox News Channel last week, shortly before the American Idol Season Six finale.
This wouldn’t be particularly exciting, since she seems to be on Fox News constantly, except that this time, she said […]
A study in the January issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine suggests that Americans may benefit (or at least think they will) from employer and government incentives targeted toward reducing overweight and obesity and encouraging healthy lifestyles.
From WebMD:
The new telephone survey of 1,139 adults found that 85 percent supported tax breaks for employers […]
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