Monthly Archives: January 2010

Choose a search type from the items below All News Yahoo! Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , looked at data from two long-term population-based studies and found that adults who were overweight had an average 13% lower risk of death from any cause over 10 years, compared with those who were of normal weight. The new report adds to the ongoing scientific debate over how to define ideal weight in adults and whether the widely used measure of weight categories – body mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat based on a ratio of weight and height – is equally useful for all age groups. Another study in 2005, published in Obesity, analyzed data on more than 11,000 Canadian adults for over 12 years and found that people who were overweight were 17% less likely to die than those of normal weight. Many overweight and obese people die at younger ages, and participants in Flicker’s study necessarily had to survive until 70 in order to be included. read more

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Sexting isn’t just for 12 year olds anymore, says AARP. Your woman not giving you the twenty bucks she owes you? If you own any of these useless kitchen gadgets, you should put your common sense card down the. read more

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