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Aging and Weight-Ratio Perception
PLoS ONE, 2012 Past research has provided evidence that older adults have more difficulty than younger adults in discriminating small differences in lifted weight (i.e., the difference threshold for older adults is higher than that of younger adults). Given this result, one might expect that older adults would demonstrate similar impairments in weight ratio ...
Jessica S Holmin, J Farley Norman
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Patient perception matters in weight management [PDF]
Primary Health Care Research & Development, 2017 In a survey of 471 patients, we collected self-reported weight and height data and asked about self-perceptions of provider support toward weight loss and other weight management concerns. Multivariable analysis found that respondents with higher body mass index (BMI) were more likely to report that a physician had told them that they were overweight ...
Croghan, Ivana T. +6 more
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Nivel socioeconómico y percepción del índice de masa corporal en adultos en México.
Salud Pública de México, 2014 Objective. To estimate the association between perceived body mass index (BMI) and socioeconomic variables in adults in Mexico. Materials and methods. We studied 32052 adults from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey of 2006. We estimated BMI
M Arantxa Colchero +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This research aimed (1) to examine the agreement between body mass index (BMI)-based nutritional status and perceived nutritional status overall and by socio-demographic factors and (2) to state the association between the accuracy of weight perception ...
Gabriela Nazar +10 more
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Health Risks, Past Usage, and Intention to Use Weight Loss Products in Normal Weight Women with High and Low Body Dysphoria [PDF]
, 2003 Objective: There are many health risks involved with the use of weight loss products by normal weight women. The mass media may compound this problem through the promotion of weight loss products and a thin body size.
Andrews, J. Craig +3 more
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WEIGHT PERCEPTION IN NEONATE INFANTS
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2006 A recent research revealed the capacity of the newborn to haptically detect, the weight of an object [12]. In this research, we tried to determine the means by which newborn infants, not having yet exploratory procedures, are able to treat this object property.
Michèle, Molina +2 more
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Obesity Science & Practice, 2020 Summary Objective Young men are less likely to engage in weight loss behaviours than their female counterparts. This may be because of an increased likelihood for young men, particularly young black men, with overweight/obesity to misperceive their ...
Andrew C. Pool +4 more
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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Weight Perception [PDF]
Obesity, 2009 The objective of this research was to estimate the prevalence of weight misperception among adults using the most recent nationally representative data, according to measured weight category and to assess the relationship between weight misperception and race/ethnicity.
Rashida R, Dorsey +2 more
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Darks and Stripes: Effects of Clothing on Weight Perception
Journal of Social Computing, 2020 In many societies, appearing slim (corresponding to a small body-mass index) is considered attractive.The fashion industry has been attempting to cater to this trend by designing outfits that can enhance the appearance of slimness.
Kirill Martynov +2 more
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Polysaccharide food matrices for controlling the release, retention and perception of flavours [PDF]
, 2018 Polysaccharides have many roles across both the food and pharmaceutics industries. They are commonly used to enhance viscosity, stabilise emulsions and to add bulk to food products.
Cook, Sarah L. +3 more
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