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The Prevalence of Overfat Adults and Children in the US [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
The overfat condition is defined as excess body fat sufficient to impair health. The problem exists in most overweight and obese individuals and can also occur in those who are normal-weight and non-obese, often due to excess abdominal fat.
Philip B. Maffetone, Paul B. Laursen
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Overfat Adults and Children in Developed Countries: The Public Health Importance of Identifying Excess Body Fat [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
The global overfat pandemic is a serious public health crisis that places a substantial burden on economic resources in developed countries. The term overfat refers to the presence of excess body fat that can impair health, even for normal weight non ...
Philip B. Maffetone, Ivan Rivera-Dominguez, Paul B. Laursen   +2 more
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Tracking of TV and video gaming during childhood: Iowa Bone Development Study [PDF]

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2011
Background Tracking studies determine the stability and predictability of specific phenomena. This study examined tracking of TV viewing (TV) and video game use (VG) from middle childhood through early adolescence after adjusting for moderate and ...
Broffitt Barbara, Sernulka-George Frances D, Stancel Matthew J, Francis Shelby L, Levy Steven M, Janz Kathleen F   +5 more
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Neglected extra-articular manifestations in rheumatoid arthritis patients with normal body mass index: reduced skeletal muscle overlapping overfat

Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease, 2020
Background: Chronic inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can induce reduced muscle mass (myopenia) and ectopic fat deposition probably showing normal body mass index (BMI).
Jian-Zi Lin, Chu-Tao Chen, Jian-Da Ma, Ying-Qian Mo, Qian-Hua Li, Le-Feng Chen, Ze-Hong Yang, Wan-Mei Cheng, Xiao-Ling He, Dong-Hui Zheng, Lie Dai   +10 more
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Overfat and Underfat: New Terms and Definitions Long Overdue [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
For the first time in human history, the number of obese people worldwide now exceeds those who are underweight. However, it is possible that there is an even more serious problem-an overfat pandemic comprised of people who exhibit metabolic health impairments associated with excess fat mass relative to lean body mass. Many overfat individuals, however,
Maffetone, Philip B., Rivera-Dominguez, Ivan, Laursen, Paul B.   +2 more
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Defining body fatness in adolescents: a proposal of the AFAD-A classification. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
AIMS: Body mass index (BMI) shows several limitations as indicator of fatness. Using the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) reference and the World Health Organization (WHO) standard 2007 on the same dataset yielded widely different rates. At higher
María del Mar Bibiloni, Antoni Pons, Josep A Tur   +2 more
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Anthropometric indices significance for body fat assessment in adolescents [PDF]

Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2010
In order to distinguish anthropometric indices significance for body fat assessment anthropometry and bioimpedanceometry were made in 620 schoolchildren. Maximal correlation with body fat was revealed for BMI (r = 0,86).
I. V. Ivanova, N. L. Chyornaya
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Myopenia is associated with joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis: a cross‐sectional study

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2019
Background The link between body mass index (BMI) and disease characteristics in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains controversial. Body composition (BC) has been more frequently recommended to be used instead of BMI for more accurate assessment. Our study
Jian‐Zi Lin, Jin‐Jian Liang, Jian‐Da Ma, Qian‐Hua Li, Ying‐Qian Mo, Wan‐Mei Cheng, Xiao‐Ling He, Nan Li, Ming‐Hui Cao, Dan Xu, Lie Dai   +10 more
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Breastfeeding, HIV exposure, childhood obesity, and prehypertension: A South African cohort study. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2019
BackgroundEvidence on the association between breastfeeding and later childhood obesity and blood pressure (BP) is inconsistent, especially in HIV-prevalent areas where, until recently, HIV-infected women were discouraged from breastfeeding, but obesity ...
Brian Houle, Tamsen J Rochat, Marie-Louise Newell, Alan Stein, Ruth M Bland   +4 more
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Effects of fish-meal supplementation on performance of overfat lambs fed on barley straw to reduce carcass fatness

Animal Production, 1989
ABSTRACTThe effect of undegradable protein supply was studied in overfat lambs given low-energy diets to reduce carcass fatness. Two trials involving sequential batches of 48 overfat Suffolk × lambs investigated the effects of supplementing an ad libitum straw diet with either 0 or 100 g fish-meal pellets daily for 14-, 28- and 42-day periods.
Vipond, J. E., King, Margaret E., Ørskov, E. R., Wetherill, G. Z.   +3 more
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