News tagged with fat composition

Children who often drink full-fat milk weigh less

Eight-year-old children who drink full-fat milk every day have a lower BMI than those who seldom drink milk. This is not the case for children who often drink medium-fat or low-fat milk. This is one conclusion of a thesis ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Researchers find ethnicity key to accurate obesity measurements

The current National Institutes of Health body mass index cutoff values for obesity are too high for many reproductive-age women in the U.S. and should be adjusted to account for ethnic differences in body composition to ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast