BACKGROUND Obesity has become the most common pediatric chronic disease in the modern era. Early prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent obesity is mandated. Surprisingly, however, only a minor fraction of obese children participate in weight reduction interventions, and the longer-term effects of these weight-reduction interventions among children have not been elucidated. OBJEC...

BACKGROUND The influences of creatine and caffeine supplementation associated with power exercise on lean body mass (LBM) composition are not clear. The purpose of this research was to determine whether supplementation with high doses of creatine and caffeine, either solely or combined, affects the LBM composition of rats submitted to vertical jumping training. METHODS Male Wistar rats were r...

introduction: complications of obesity and high fat in children are grave now and future. the aim of this research is comparing percentage of body fat in active and inactive girls using anthropometric parameters.materials and methods: this research is descriptive- correlation that 144 active(n= 70) and inactive(n= 74) girls aged 8 to 10 years old were selected by random cluster sampling method ...

OBJECTIVE The study objective was to examine the relationship between visceral and somatic protein stores and physical activity in individuals with end-stage renal disease. DESIGN This was a prospective single-center study. SETTING The study took place at the Vanderbilt University Outpatient Dialysis Unit and General Clinical Research Center. PATIENTS Fifty-five patients with prevalent ch...

Body composition is a determinant of performance in soccer. To estimate the body fat percentage (%BF), dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) effective though this method expensive and not readily accessible. This study examines validity widely used field methods based on anthropometric data bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Participants were 21 male Spanish First Division soccer players ...

The goals of this study were to evaluate the basic morphological variables of contemporary elite ice hockey players, compare the parameters of players in the top Russian ice hockey league (KHL) with those of the top Czech ice hockey league (ELH), and to evaluate the parameters of players according to their position in the game. The research participants included 30 KHL players (mean age: 27.1 ±...

In vivo body composition and resting heat production was determined in male growing kids treated with beta agonists – clenbuterol, salbutamol and terbutaline on day-0, day-21 and day-42 of the treatment period. There was marked difference in body water and body fat percentage, however it was not significant. Resting heat production (kcal/kg 0.75 /hr) did not differ significantly between groups ...

INTRODUCTION Obesity is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a disease characterized by the excessive accumulation of body fat. Obesity is considered a public health problem, leading to serious social, psychological and physical problems. However, the appropriate cut-off point of body mass index (BMI) based on body fat percentage (BF%) for classifying an individual as obese in midd...