From start-up, My Fitness Pal takes your weight, height, goal weight and lifestyle into account before giving its recommendations.
The researchers took into account smoking, weight, physical activity, type 2 diabetes, and other factors that could influence the results.
Your height, inseam and weight are all taken into account - even the possibility that you'll be toting around a toddler in a child seat on the rear rack is considered in the equation that decides the final shape of the frame.
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Because this static weight-loss rule does not account for dynamic physiological adaptations that occur with decreased bodyweight, its widespread use at both the individual and population levels has led to drastically overestimated expectations for weight loss.
The studies measured the participants' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of their height and weight, but it wasn't able to take into account their body fat composition, or how much of their overall body weight was made up of fat versus muscle.
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This is because they rely on static models of weight loss rather than dynamic models that account for the way the body adjusts to reducing food intake by reducing energy expenditure.
Meanwhile, BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson's account was hacked by spammers advertising weight-loss tablets.
Trainee anaesthetists will be able to practice on Stan, making sure they take into account factors such as height and weight, and whether the patient has a chronic condition such as asthma or diabetes.
Weight gain of passengers in noncommercial vehicles could account for nearly 1 billion gallons of gasoline consumed per year in the United States from 1960 to 2002, Allstate says in an infographic accompanying its blog post.
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Intel's ability to throw its weight around won it the high-profile Apple account, displacing IBM and Freescale.
The Healthy Weight Commitment is a partnership between 16 corporations that account for roughly 20 to 25 percent of the American food supply.
Further, to account for the possibility that the normal weight patients could have been losing weight due to other underlying illnesses, the researchers excluded people who died within two years of their diabetes diagnosis.
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With an average speed of 70kph, it will spend the day climbing as its lithium-polymer cells (which account for about a quarter of its 1, 600kg weight) are recharged.
The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
An interesting aside was that the Panel gave weight to the existence of similar or more aggressive risk tolerance at a prior brokerage affirm where claimants maintained a securities account.
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