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[Enflu] The two-day ministerial meeting in the capital Dhaka will discuss strategies against malaria, avian flu and pandemic-influenza and other health-related issues, officials said.

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http://time.blogs.com [Time.blogs.com] TIME.com: The TIME Global Health Blog: Wu adds that the World Health Organization's definitions of overweight (a Body Mass Index of over 25) or obesity (a BMI of over 30) may be set too high for Asians, who seem to suffer the ill effects of body weight at a lower BMI than Caucasians do. (See TIME Asia's cover story on obesity for more on the phenomenon.) The Working Group on Obesity in China recommended making a BMI of 24 the cutoff point for overweight, and 28 for obesity.

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- October, 2005 Archives: "There's so much fluctuation in body weight due to fluid that you lose or gain, and that can represent two, three, sometimes four pounds," notes Harry DuVal, Ph.D., associate professor of exercise science and director of the fitness center at the University of Georgia in Athens. "You get all excited, thinking, 'Look what I lost!' and then you go and replenish your fluids and, bingo, you're right back up to where you were -- if not higher -- so you get discouraged."

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