Mon, Oct 23, 2023
According to the study, 70 per cent of respondents believed that individuals face bullying or teasing in professional environments or social gatherings due to obesity.
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Thu, Aug 01, 2019
Diabetes might be associated with the diet and lifestyle of a person. A new study has found that women who start experiencing menstruation at an early age are at an elevated risk of type 2 diabetes. It also added that body mass index (BMI) might mediate this association.
Fri, May 10, 2019
According to a recent study, obesity is increasing more rapidly in the world's rural areas than in the cities. As part of the study, a team of researchers analysed the height and weight data of more than 112 million adults across urban and rural areas of 200 countries and territories between 1985 and 2017. Height and weight can be used to calculate BMI, an internationally recognised scale which tells us whether an individual has a healthy weight for their height. In 1985, urban men and women in over three quarters of the countries had a higher BMI than their rural counterparts. Over time, the gap between urban and rural BMI in many of these countries shrank or even reversed.
Fri, Jan 20, 2017
Air India has asked its crew members including air hostesses to 'shape up' within a stipulated time frame and if they failed to do so they would be grounded permanently.
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