Use of social networking sites and perception and intentions regarding body weight among adolescents
Obesity Science & Practice, 2016 Summary Objective Social networking sites (SNSs) not only offer users an opportunity to link with others but also allow individuals to compare themselves with other users. However, the link between the use of SNSs and the dissatisfaction with body weight
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Changes in body mass during weight loss treatment – a two-year prospective study
Studia Medyczne, 2017 Introduction : A reduction of 5% to 10% of body mass is related to a significantly lower risk of the occurrence of conditions whose underlying cause is obesity.
Katarzyna Krekora-Wollny, Edyta Suliga
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Brain Weight and Life-Span in Primate Species [PDF]
, 1993 In haplorhine primates (tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans), there is a significant correlation between brain weight and maximum life-span when the effect of body size is removed.
Allman, John +2 more
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Understanding panel conditioning: an examination of social desirability bias in self-reported height and weight in panel surveys using experimental data [PDF]
, 2011 Typically reliant on self-reports from panel data, a growing body of literature suggests that relative body weight can have negative effects on labour market outcomes.
Uhrig, S C Noah
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PREDICTION OF BODY WEIGHT OF PIGS FROM BODY MEASUREMENTS [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 2004 An attempt was made to develop a formula to estimate the body weight (W) of Large White Yorkshire piglets aged between three to six months using body length (L) and chest girth (G) data.
U. Narayanikutty +2 more
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The Relationship Between Perceived and Ideal Body Size and Body Mass Index Among 9th Grade Students in an Urban High School [PDF]
, 2006 This study examined the perceptions of actual and ideal body size and how it related to body mass index in 82 ethnically and socioeconomically diverse 9th-graders from an urban high school.
Orozco, Irma
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BODY WEIGHT AND ORGAN WEIGHT IN RATS
The KITAKANTO Medical Journal, 1962 To define the standard for the normal physiological status of rats, about 300 Wistar strain rats, bred in our department, were examined for body weight gain with age in day, and weight of 11 organs-hypophysis, thyroid, adrenal, thymus, testis, ovary, uterus, heart, liver, spleen and kidney-were obtained for each body weight group.
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Pregnancy weight gain and childhood body weight: a within-family comparison.
PLoS Medicine, 2013 BackgroundExcessive pregnancy weight gain is associated with obesity in the offspring, but this relationship may be confounded by genetic and other shared influences. We aimed to examine the association of pregnancy weight gain with body mass index (BMI)
David S Ludwig +2 more
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Momentum-space atom correlations in a Mott insulator
, 2019 We report on the investigation of the three-dimensional single-atom-resolved distributions of bosonic Mott insulators in momentum-space. Firstly, we measure the two-body and three-body correlations deep in the Mott regime, finding a perfectly contrasted ...
Aspect, Alain +5 more
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BMC Public HealthBackground Which body weight is considered ideal and socially accepted in modern societies? A widely held belief is that social body weight norms are strict and thin in Western societies.
Liliya Leopold
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