Children’s Weight Gain and Cardiovascular Fitness Loss over the Summer

Does weight gain lead to weight loss?

Effects of Short-Term Interval Training Courses on Fitness and Weight Loss of Untrained Girls

Due to the increase in obesity and sedentary lifestyle in today's world, encouraging the individuals to do appropriate and academic physical activities and studying sports programs with different structures are if great importance. The present paper aims to study the effect of 30 minutes interval short courses of running (4 rounds × 7:30 minutes) with a mean intensity of 60-75% of heart rate ...

Prior weight loss exacerbates the biological drive to gain weight after the loss of ovarian function

Both the history of obesity and weight loss may change how menopause affects metabolic health. The purpose was to determine whether obesity and/or weight loss status alters energy balance (EB) and subsequent weight gain after the loss of ovarian function. Female lean and obese Wistar rats were randomized to 15% weight loss (WL) or ad libitum fed controls (CON). After the weight loss period, WL ...

Optimizing the cardiovascular outcomes of weight loss.

The past 2 y have seen a steady stream of reports indicating that restriction or modification of carbohydrate intakes can favorably affect weight loss and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (1–6). The article by Ebbeling et al (7) in this issue of the Journal represents one more in favor of diets with a low glycemic index (GI) or glycemic load (GL). Serum triacylglycerol concentrations i...

Patterns of Maternal Weight Gain During Pregnancy and Birth Weight

Anthropometric parameters are an important indicator of health and nutritional status comprising the whole span of mans life. However, they are not of the same degree of simplicity and sensitivity in assessing the public health status. During recent decades many studies have attempted to examine the relationships of these measurements in order to present simple alternatives for similar purposes...