... Americans' average body mass index (BMI) rose from 26.5 to 28.8 over that time span... study. It found that a large proportion of obese people believe their body size is normal and...

FRIDAY, Sept. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Mildly depressed teenagers are more likely to have major depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders as adults, a new study suggests...

SUNDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Whether cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins should be given to children apparently depends on who you ask. Major health associations in the United States...

MONDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- Body image concerns affect both male bodybuilders who use.... For the study, published in the June issue of Body Image, Baghurst classified bodybuilders as...

... X-rays to go through the body in order to get an informative image, and excess weight impedes... image quality." "Americans have gotten larger on average over the last half-century, and so...

FRIDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- When a teenager has an eating disorder, it's not just the teen's problem. It's a family problem. So, parents should join in on the treatment, a growing number of...

... flowing from the body, into the ventricles, the lower blood-pumping chambers.... More information The American Heart Association provides an image of an EKG and explains what...

... those areas of the body. But because the bile duct is narrow, it is hard for medical... look for abnormally shaped cells, a search repeated with the additional use of digital image...

... within the nervous system. Tapert noted that if this damaged white matter was just an image.... "There is a growing body of scientific evidence on alcohol-related neurotoxicity, as well as...

And if people are obese -- including women with diabetes, who are not uncommonly overweight -- you're going to have to look through a lot more tissue, and that makes it more difficult to image...