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Study shows link between childhood health and risk of disease in men in later life
New research has shown how boys being overweight in early childhood or having chickenpox or another infectious disease in ...
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Body Fat More Accurately Predicts Heart Disease, Death Risk Than BMI
A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...
Medscape2d
Sharp Obesity Increase Since Pandemic in Black Youth
Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...
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Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years - Cochrane
Key results The average age of the children was 10 years. Most studies reported the body mass index (BMI) z score: BMI is a measure of body fat and is calculated by dividing weight (in kilograms) by ...