Physical Activity: An Important Adaptative Mechanism for Body-Weight Control

Retracted: Physical Activity: An Important Adaptative Mechanism for Body-Weight Control

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.5402/2012/675285.].

Physical Activity Plays an Important Role in Body Weight Regulation

Emerging literature highlights the need to incorporate physical activity into every strategy intended to prevent weight gain as well as to maintain weight loss over time. Furthermore, physical activity should be part of any plan to lose weight. The stimulus of exercise provides valuable metabolic adaptations that improve energy and macronutrient balance regulation. A tight coupling between ener...

Body Weight is an Important Trait for Comparisons of Goat Breeds

Eleven goat breeds of different origin (10 Spanish and 1 African) were considered for this study: Zambian Dwarf, Azpi-Gorri, Blanca-Andaluza, Blanca-Celtibérica, Blanca de Rasquera, Catalana, Malagueña, Moncaína, Murciano-Granadina, Negra Serrana and Pyrenean. Nine linear body measurements for females, as well as the body weight ratio between gender and body weight, were obtained from literatur...

Food Availability, Physical Activity and Body Weight

During the last decades our knowledge about neuroendocrine control of energy balance has increased tremendously. Numerous neuropeptides and hormones with pronounced effects on feeding and body weight have been identified and put into schemes as “anorexic” or “orexigenic” signals. So far this has not rendered new insights into how to explain or treat human pathology such as obesity or anorexia n...

Representing Context for an Adaptative Awareness Mechanism