One type of therapy used in the study is body-weight-support treadmill training, in which a patient's weight is supported by a harness over a treadmill while therapists help move his legs.
Harper defines toning exercises as body-specific, weight-bearing routines that build lean muscle, often using no equipment and only your own body weight as resistance.
The two American soldiers -- who had already lost about half their body weight -- stood day and night, for at least two days, before they crumpled to the ground.
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They measured height, weight and body mass index - calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
Brief exposure to high levels of PCBs and dioxins may cause skin lesions and affect the liver (the tolerated daily intake for dioxin is about 1 picogram - one trillionth of a gram - per kg body weight).
The 700-horesepower V12 is cut like a body builder, with the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in its class.
They will put on one-fifth of their body weight, about 1lb to 2lb, during the month or so that they stay.
All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
You don't have to be a bodybuilder though -- light weights or even using your own body weight for resistance is enough for beginners.
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The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
Jackson won't reach her goal weight of 164 pounds -- a healthy body mass index for her 5-foot-8 frame -- by her birthday in February.
"The possibility that the drug will only do the good things like lose weight and not have myriad effects on the body -- is zero, " he said.
He has since been following the Zone Diet - consisting of a strict formula of carbohydrates, proteins and fats - which has enabled him to nearly halve his body weight.
The FDA approved Qsymia only for obese people or for overweight people with a body mass index greater than 27 who also suffer from weight-related conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
It also recently launched its Wi-Fi Smart Scale, which transmits your weight, body fat and body mass index to the cloud.
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He believes the best way for women in this age-group to keep their bones strong is to keep their body weight within normal levels and make sure they are exercising regularly.
The American College of Sports Medicine recommends that endurance and strength training athletes consume higher levels of daily protein than the standard recommended daily allowance (i.e. 1.2-1.7 grams of protein for each kilogram of body weight, versus 0.8 grams per kilogram per day).
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Unfortunately, the recent Journal of the American Medical Association publication analyzing life expectancy correlations to one imperfect calculation of relative weight (BMI, the body mass index) distracts readers all-too-eager to cling to its implications that being chubby is actually better.
The heavy-duty elastic straps hook to a beam and enable users to use their body weight as resistance in movements like single leg jumps.
Anthony Ware, who is leading prasugrel development at Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ), notes that most of the bleeding deaths occurred in patients in high-risk groups, such as those who had strokes or were low in body weight.
It also increases the use of costly carbon-fiber body panels (the hood and roof) and other composite materials, to save weight.
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While a small group of women will have a low body weight because of eating disorders, serious athletes make up the larger group at risk -- for example, competitive runners or gymnasts.
By controlling for individual and environmental influences on weight, such as income and health, they then measure whether food-price changes affect body-mass index (BMI).
"Even so, it is not definitive evidence that sugar-sweetened soft drinks increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, other than through their effect on body weight, " he added.
Jain also gets his patients to use a body weight tracker called BMI by NutriSystem to track their body mass index, since depression is a mind-body disorder.
Body weight is controlled mostly by the hypothalamus, a structure at the center of the brain that fine-tunes metabolism to a level that no conscious calorie-counter could match.
This plea has been brewing for some time and now he has finally been beaten, not by the opposition bowlers, a wilting body or the pressure of the media storm but by his eight-year-old daughter who obviously holds more weight than any of the standard or speculated reasons for him finishing.
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