The Paradoxes of Body Weight

Paradoxes with weight disorders for health systems.

The body mass index (BMI) has served public health and clinical medicine well in the recognition of obesity. However, its use has generated some instructive paradoxes and misunderstandings which argue for the appreciation of body compositional disorders (BCD) as such and, in particular, for the parallel evaluation of muscle mass with a definition of 'orthosarcal' conditions to enable the early ...

The Estimation of Body Weight from Body Measurements in Kilakarsal Sheep of Tamil Nadu, India

Data on body weight and body measurements (body length, height at withers, chest girth and paunch girth) of adult Kilakarsal sheep have been collected from 124 adult animals managed at the farmers filed in Tirunelveli districts of Tami Nadu, India to estimate the body weight from body measurements. The data were subjected to standard statistical analysis using SPSS software and linear regressio...

The Effect of Clostridium perfringens Type D Culture Filtrate on the Mouse Body Weight

The effect of Hypericum scabrum on the hematologic factors, body weight and temperature in mice

Background & Aim: Vast variety of plants in various regions of the country and lack of enough information on their chemical combinations, sometimes lead to triggering poisoning and unsatisfied complications. Regarding to fabulous herbal characteristics of Hypricum, many research about poisoning and side effects of high concentrations of H. scabrum have not taken place...

The effect of Hypericum scabrum on the hematologic factors, body weight and temperature in mice

Background & Aim: Vast variety of plants in various regions of the country and lack of enough information on their chemical combinations, sometimes lead to triggering poisoning and unsatisfied complications. Regarding to fabulous herbal characteristics of Hypricum, many research about poisoning and side effects of high concentrations of H. scabrum have not taken place...