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Risk Factors for Obesity and Overfat among Primary School Children in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018
Associated childhood obesity risk factors are not well established in developing countries such as Zimbabwe and this information is essential for tailored intervention development. This study aimed to identify prominent risk factors for overweight/obese and overfat/obese among primary school children of Mashonaland West Province in Zimbabwe.
Benn Sartorius, George Kambondo
exaly   +8 more sources

The overfat pandemic in India [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Epidemic Obesity, 2018
Abstract Up to 76% of the world’s population is overfat, a term referring to the accumulation of excess body fat that can impair health and contribute to chronic disease.
Mihira Khopkar, Philip Maffetone
exaly   +3 more sources

Influence of skeletal muscle mass and fat mass on the metabolic and inflammatory profile in sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic overfat elderly [PDF]

open access: yesAging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2018
Sarcopenic elderly present low muscle mass and strength, however, it is not clear if the inflammatory and metabolic profile is more related to low lean mass or high fat mass in sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic overfat elderly.To verify the difference in inflammatory and metabolic responses in sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic overfat elderly and the ...
Fabrício Eduardo Rossi   +2 more
exaly   +6 more sources

Overweight or overfat? Many Canadians are both [PDF]

open access: yesCmaj, 2017
Three in five Canadians are overweight or obese, but a far greater number have potentially harmful levels of body fat, renewing debate about the best way to measure obesity. According to Statistics Canada, [61.3% of adult Canadians were overweight or obese][1] in 2015.
Lauren Vogel
exaly   +3 more sources

Coercion versus self-selection when treating issues of overfatness: A narrative review

Health Education Journal, 2023
The use of diet and exercise has become the cornerstone to treatment of overfatness issues. Yet, the implementation of such factors into lifestyle changes has not been able to meet intrinsic expectations or desires and has led to continuous repetition of short-term success within a coercive environment that is followed by rebound leading to secondary ...
James E Clark, Emily Sirois
openaire   +1 more source

Muscle cross-sectional area and motor unit properties of the medial gastrocnemius and vastus lateralis in normal weight and overfat children

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, 2020
New Findings What is the central question of this study? Are differences in muscle size and motor unit properties between normal weight and overfat children muscle specific? What is the main finding and its importance? Muscle cross‐sectional area and motor unit action potential amplitudes and firing rates were similar between overfat and normal weight
Michael Trevino   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Optimal Workload of Wingate Test: A Comparison Between Normal and Minor Overfat Young Adults [PDF]

open access: yesThe Open Sports Sciences Journal, 2008
We compared the optimal workload of Wingate test (WAnT), which was assigned according to total body mass (TBM), between two groups of eight young male adults. The leg anaerobic power and fat free mass of these two groups were comparable while their percent body fat was either within (NOR) or above normal range (OF).
Binh Quach
exaly   +2 more sources

Assessment and conservative management of the overfat adolescent

Journal of Adolescent Health Care: Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 1981
With the increasing incidence of obesity among adolescents, physicians are often asked about weight reduction programs and "ideal" body weights for patients of varying biological maturities. Morbidly obese patients are easily diagnosed; however, little differentiation is made in assessing adolescents who are considered overweight vs. overfat as defined
B R, Carruth, J, Iszler
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Exercise Intensity Does Not Effect Body Composition Change in Untrained, Moderately Overfat Women

Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1995
To determine whether exercise intensity effects a change in body composition.Twelve untrained, moderately overfat, weight-stable women were randomly assigned to a high-intensity (80% VO2max) or low-intensity (50% VO2max) exercise group. Subjects trained four times per week for 12 weeks in monitored sessions, with a duration sufficient to expend 300 ...
Dan Benardot
exaly   +3 more sources

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