OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of the media on girls' weight concerns, weight control/loss behaviors, and perceptions of body weight and shape. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey completed in school. The questionnaire assessed body weight, dissatisfaction with body weight and shape, exposure to fashion magazines, the impact of media on feelings about weight and shape, attributes of and preferen...

What is the ideal body size and shape that we want for ourselves and our partners? What are the important physical features in this ideal? And do both genders agree on what is an attractive body? To answer these questions we used a 3D interactive software system which allows our participants to produce a photorealistic, virtual male or female body. Forty female and forty male heterosexual Cauca...

The use of computer technology has made it possible to make accurate determinations of body composition, nutrition, and exercise. With the FITCOMP computer assessment system, detailed measurements of physique status have been made on a variety of world-class athletes, including professional football and baseball players, as well as on diverse groups of young and older men and women throughout t...

BACKGROUND Obesity exacerbates the age-related decline in physical function and causes frailty in older adults; however, the appropriate treatment for obese older adults is controversial. METHODS In this 1-year, randomized, controlled trial, we evaluated the independent and combined effects of weight loss and exercise in 107 adults who were 65 years of age or older and obese. Participants wer...

The purpose was to determine the magnitude of aerobic and anaerobic performance factors among elite male football players in different team positions. Thirty-nine players from the highest Swedish division classified as defenders (n=18), midfield players (n=12) or attackers (n=9) participated. Their mean (± sd) age, height and body mass (bm) were 24.4 (±4.7) years, 1.80 (±5.9)m and 79 (±7.6)kg, ...

BACKGROUND In humans and rodents obesity appears to promote some cancers by increasing incidence, tumor aggressiveness, recurrence, and fatality. However, the relationship between obesity and cancer in dogs has not been thoroughly evaluated. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Whether body condition score (BCS) at the time of lymphoma (LSA) or osteosarcoma (OSA) diagnosis in dogs is predictive of survival ...

To the Editor—Despite increases in obesity, data to guide dosing of voriconazole in this population are lacking. We describe the dosing of intravenous voriconazole in an obese patient undergoing an allogeneic hematopoeitic cell transplant. A 30-year-old male underwent a matched unrelated donor allogeneic stem cell transplant (SCT) for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia. On day 11 fol...

The apparent oral clearance (CL/F, mL/min) of busulfan was measured in 279 adolescent and adult patients. Significant (P <.05) determinants of CL/F by linear regression were: actual body weight (BW; r2 = 0.300), body surface area (BSA; r2 = 0.277), adjusted ideal body weight (AIBW; r2 = 0.265), and ideal body weight (IBW; r2 = 0.173); whereas body mass index (BMI), height, age, gender, and dise...

backgounds: a number of studies have focused on the effects of season of birth, as an environmental factor, on embryonic development. methods: in a retrospective descriptive work, heights (crown to heel), weights and head circumferences of the full term, normal, and singleton newborn infants in hamadan city (west of iran) were collected from their randomly selected files in fattemieh hospital d...