OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between the stages of somatic maturation and body composition in eutrophic female adolescents with or without excessive body fat. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 118 female adolescents, from 14 to 19 years-old, in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Southeast Brazil. The adolescents were divided in two groups: Group 1 (G1), eutrophic with adequate body fat percentage...

OBJECTIVE To compare the dietary intake of adolescents with type 1 diabetes with that of adolescents without diabetes matched on age, sex, and year in school and to compare the diets of both groups with recommendations. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were 132 adolescents with type 1 diabetes, recruited from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and 131 adolescents without diabetes rang...

Selection in mice for high and low fat percentage and high and low lean percentage, based on indicator traits of total composition, point to moderately high heritabilities which are in agreement with base population estimates calculated as regressions of sons on sires. Selection for a single fat depot, epididymal fat pad weight as a percentage of body weight at 12-weeks of age, resulted in corr...

abcg2 (atp binding cassette subfamily g member 2) gene, located on chromosome 6 encodes the abcg2 protein that transports various xenobiotics, cytostatic drugs across the plasma membrane as well as cholesterol into milk. a single nucleotide change (a/c) in base 86 of exon 14 is capable of encoding a substitution of tyrosine with serine in the abcg2 gene and increase milk yield while decreasing ...

BACKGROUND American women aged 25-44 y gain 0.5-1 kg yearly, most of which is fat. Because few midlife women participate in strength training, this mode of activity may be a novel intervention for preventing age-associated fat increases in this population. OBJECTIVES The primary aim was to assess the efficacy of twice-weekly strength training to avoid increases in percentage body fat and intr...

OBJECTIVE It is known that depression is common in obese individuals. Besides the effects of obesity, pathogenic effects of increase in visceral and abdominal fat mass on depression are also being investigated. Our study aimed to show the relationship between visceral fat percentage detected with practical methods and the presence and severity of depression. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our study in...