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Childhood cancer survivors may have late effects that affect body weight and cause obesity.
Obesity may be caused by treatment for certain childhood cancers.
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Body weight is usually normal, although the person may perceive themselves as overweight. If bulimia is accompanied by anorexia, body weight may be extremely low.
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Body weight in pounds according to height and body mass index.
Below is a table identifying the risk of associated disease according to BMI and waist size.
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Body weight defined by you and your health care provider that decreases your risk for diseases and complications.
Oral glucose-lowering medications
Medications taken orally to lower blood glucose.
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low body weight (less than 85 percent of normal weight for height and age)
intense fear of weight gain, even as individual is losing weight ...
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Excess body weight may not be a direct cause of poor health, but new research says obesity does seem to increase the incidence of certain types of cancer.
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Loss of body weight and muscle mass, and weakness that may occur in patients with cancer, AIDS, or other chronic diseases.
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Lower body weight is helpful even if you're only 10 or 20 pounds overweight. Fatty tissue in a woman's body produces female hormones. These add to those produced by your ovary and other glands and may increase any PMS symptom.
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So, from a body weight and nutritional view point, alcohol will not help your athletic performance and may well have a negative effect.
I enjoy a drink - so when can I drink?
The American College of Sports Medicine recommendations are: ...
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Maintain an ideal body weight.
Prevent osteoporosis by getting enough exercise and vitamin D and calcium, and possibly by taking medication.
Prevent major accidents and injuries.
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Maintain a healthy body weight. Avoid being overweight.
Follow the DASH diet. This diet is low in fat, cholesterol, red meat, and sweets. It emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy foods.
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The feelings about body weight and shape may not result in an attempt to loose dramatic amounts of weight, and so the condition can continue. In the long-term this can cause:
irregular heartbeat
damaged kidneys
eroded teeth.
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Daily monitoring of body weight may be advised. Weight gain of 3 or 4 pounds or more over 1 or 2 days may indicate fluid accumulation.
Smoking and drinking alcohol may worsen the symptoms.
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Even mild dehydration, a loss of as little as 1 percent to 2 percent of body weight, can cause weakness, dizziness and fatigue. Far more serious is hypovolemic shock, a life-threatening complication of dehydration.
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People who are twice their ideal body weight, or more, are at great risk of dying from conditions that are a direct consequence of their weight. Heart attacks, strokes, diabetes mellitus and heart failure are the most common of these.
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Other documented effects of GHB include amnesia and hypotonia (associated with doses of 10 mg/kg body weight); a normal sequence of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep (doses of 20-30 mg/kg body weight); ...
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Successful treatment involves exercise, rest, the maintenance of ideal body weight, the local application of heat or cold, medication, and surgery.
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To do so, protein intake should be between 1 to 2 grams per kilogram of body weight. For example, a 154-pound (70-kilogram) person can eat 70 to 114 grams of protein per day. Eating more protein than that taxes the kidneys and can be harmful.
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To maintain balance when learning to stand or walk, babies hold their feet wide apart in a position that distributes body weight over the entrire foot, including the arch, so they appear to be flatfooted.
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The terms "overweight" or "obese" are used to describe excess body weight. Overweight typically refers to weight 10% above the expected body weight for height and build. Obese refers to being 20% over the target.
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AIDS WASTING SYNDROME: Involves involuntary loss of 10% of baseline body weight plus either chronic diarrhea (two loose stools per day for more than 30 days) or chronic weakness and documented fever (for 30 days or more, intermittent or constant) in ...
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- Maintain your ideal body weight. Some of those with this problem tend to put on weight and retain fluid. The closer you are to your ideal weight, the better for your lungs. Stay on a low-calorie diet.
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If the fourth toe is shorter than the fifth toe, it never assumes the body weight and cannot transfer it to the third toe correctly. As a result, the fifth and third toes receive extra weight and pain develops in those areas.
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Walk in chest deep and you've shaved away another 25 percent of your body weight, says physical therapist Donna Everix.
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Additional indications being investigated: After being treated with Topamax for a year, obese patients with epilepsy were found to have lost over 11 percent of their body weight; therefore, its use in the treatment of obesity is being evaluated.
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The findings show that the average schoolchild carries more than 30 per cent of his or her body weight at least once a week in the form of a school backpack.
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FIBULA - A long bone in the lower leg that is adjacent to the tibia. The fibula supports approximately 1/6th of the body weight and produces the lateral (outer) prominence of the ankle.
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People with HIV can experience many changes in their bodies. Listen to experts explain why people with HIV lose body weight and muscle mass and what they can do to gain it back.
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Call your health care provider if involuntary weight loss exceeds 7% of total body weight within a month.
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A fluid deprivation test helps determine whether DI is caused by (1) excessive intake of fluid, (2) a defect in ADH production, or (3) a defect in the kidneys' response to ADH. This test measures changes in body weight, urine output, ...
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Inactivity and insufficient exercise can be contributing factors; the less active the person, the fewer calories are needed to maintain normal body weight.
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In animals, ropinirole has been shown to have adverse effects on embryo-fetal development, including teratogenic effects, decreased fetal body weight, increased fetal death and digital malformation.
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of iron that will cause poisoning depends upon the size of the child. An 8-year-old may show no symptoms from an amount that would cause serious symptoms in a 3-year-old. Symptoms appear at doses greater than 10 mg/kg (based on the body weight of the ...
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