The BMI—considered the individual’s fitness and obesity indicator—is the ratio of the body weight in kg versus height in m^2.
Key Points in the new guidelines :
- A person with a body mass index of 23 kg/m2 will now be considered overweight and below that as one with normal BMI—unlike the cut-off limit of 25 kg/m2 earlier.
- Those with BMI of 25 kg/m2 will be clinically termed obese (as opposed to 30 kg/m2 at the international level) and those with BMI of 32.5 kg/m2 will require bariatric surgery to eliminate excess flab.
- According to guidelines, cut-offs for waist circumstances will now be 90 cm for Indian men (as opposed to 102 cm globally) and 80 cm for Indian women (as opposed to 88 cm at the international level).
The guidelines were released jointly by the Health Ministry, the Diabetes Foundation of India, the All-India Institute of Medical Science (Aiims), Indian Council of Medical Research, the National Institute of Nutrition and 20 other health organisations.
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At LifeMojo, we do a one time verification call to the subscribers of our SMS ‘health tip of the day’ service. On Nov 25, during one of the verification call, one of the subscriber (name not being mentioned for privacy reasons) suggested that we should have a channel on Google SMS channels. The user wanted to spread the word about our heath tip of the day service by inviting his friends on a Google SMS channel.
Yesterday Nov 26, we launched our channel on Google SMS channels. The channel is called LifeMojo.
You can check-out the channel at
http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/browse?hl=en&q=lifemojo&btnG=Search
Cheers!
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I read an article about 17 companies losing licence to make obesity drug. The article in 25th November 2008 ’s Mint suggests that these Obesity Drugs had side effects… read the entire article here.
I hope people would NOW stop looking for shortcuts and move on to natural and sustainable ways to lose weight i.e. Diet Control and Exercise.
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Keeping in mind that lot of people were coming to our website for our health tip of the day and found them very useful, we have made it much simpler to get these health tips. Now, you can get the health tips on your mobile as SMS for FREE. Just follow the instructions below to get the health tips on your mobile.
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Lot of you have given us some good feedback on the incredible amount of information that we have in our articles and you would love to read the new articles as soon as they come. Well, now you can read the new articles in the comfort of your RSS reader. Just click on the RSS feed icon (
) at the top right and choose from the different feeds.
If you are interested in particular category of articles or only in health tips then just choose the appropriate feed.
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