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BMI

since 2025 › Jan › 18 (Sat) @ 08:21 UTC

auto-detected in 18 stories

5 days ago

Huge Alzheimer's breakthrough as weight loss jab already prescribed to thousands on the NHS is found to slow progression of memory robbing illness

found 2025 › Dec › 01 (Mon) @ 14:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Liraglutide - sold under the brand name Saxenda - is often offered to people with with a BMI of over 30 as it improves blood sugar control and aids weight loss.

12 days ago

Do women’s periods actually sync up with each other? ⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 24 (Mon) @ 17:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Experts unpack the common myth of menstruating people’s cycles synchronizing when they’re in close proximity for long enough

Tell us: what are the best and worst gifts you’ve ever received?

To be someo…

33 days ago

Being obese can increase your risk of developing incurable ear ringing disorder tinnitus

found 2025 › Nov › 03 (Mon) @ 13:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Scientists from Pakistan discovered those with a BMI of over 30 were almost 50 per cent more likely to have the condition than men of a healthy weight.

36 days ago

As a GP who was obese with a BMI of 41, I know how cruel the world is to overweight women. Cut-price weight-loss jabs are so tempting... this is what I tell my patients ⊖

found 2025 › Oct › 31 (Fri) @ 12:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

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Judging from the numbers I'm seeing, the black market for weight-loss jabs isn't small-scale. This is a massive operation.

50 days ago

Experts warn of 'skinny fat' danger as study reveals slim-looking people are at risk of heart attack and stroke: 'You can't tell by looking at someone' ⊖

found 2025 › Oct › 17 (Fri) @ 09:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The findings, published in Communications Medicine, challenge the long-standing reliance on body-mass index (BMI) as a measure of obesity.

51 days ago

So are YOU 'obese' without realising? Find out if you'd classify as dangerously overweight under new rules with our tool ⊖⊖

found 2025 › Oct › 17 (Fri) @ 00:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Under the current rules, a body-mass-index (BMI) score of 18.5 to 25 is healthy, 25 to 29 is overweight, and 30 or above counts as obese - the point at which the risk of serious illness soars.

52 days ago

Almost 70% of US adults would be deemed obese based on new definition, study finds

found 2025 › Oct › 15 (Wed) @ 15:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Medical experts have called for new way to more accurately measure obesity, although definition has yet to be adopted

Almost 70% of adults in the US would be deemed to have obesity based on a new defi…

71 days ago

Why everyone is lifting weights – and how to get started (whatever your size)

found 2025 › Sep › 26 (Fri) @ 14:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Are reps or weights more important? Is it good if it hurts? How should I structure my workouts? Everything you need to know about resistance training, from the experts

Weightlifting is rapidly joining…

88 days ago

This is the most deadly body shape you can have and why it increases your risk of cancer, dementia and psoriasis - as doctors say it's time to ditch BMI for the Body Roundness Index

found 2025 › Sep › 09 (Tue) @ 12:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Apple is the most common body shape in the UK today - and also the most deadly, researchers are now warning.

6 months ago

I'm an A&E nurse and refused skinny jabs because of the side effects - now people are shocked by the even 'bigger risk' I took to lose 8st

found 2025 › May › 29 (Thu) @ 02:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

With a BMI of almost 50, at 18st and a size 28, A&E nurse Rhianna Berry, 26, from Grantham, feared she was eating herself into an early grave, but didn't want to use slimming jabs.

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