PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to evaluate effects of regular practice of sun salutation on muscle strength, general body endurance and body composition. METHODS Subjects (49 male and 30 female) performed 24 cycles of sun salutation, 6 days a week for 24 weeks. Upper body muscle strength was determined by 1 repetition maximum (1RM) for bench press and shoulder press technique. B...

OBJECTIVE Grooming behaviours, including the application of fragranced products, are thought to reflect a means of managing social impressions and self-image. Although application of deodorants has previously been shown to make individuals appear more confident to others, few studies have specifically examined the psychological effects of such rituals on the wearer. Here, we investigated how gr...

"Fat talk" describes women discussing their bodies disparangingly for impression management while interacting with one another. This study examined whether college females deliberately alter their self-reported body image according to characteristics of their prospective audience. This study was a mixed experimental design with four audience conditions (private, public, female audience, male au...

Male intrasexual selection in haplorhine primates has previously been shown to increase male size and to a lesser degree also female size. I address the following questions: (1) why does female size increase when the selection is on males, and (2) why does female size not increase to the same extent as that of males. The potential for correlational selection on females through increased resourc...

Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) varies in animals from male biased to female biased. The evolution of SSD is potentially influenced by a number of factors, such as territoriality, fecundity, and temporal breeding patterns (explosive vs. prolonged). In general, frogs show female-biased SSD with broad variance among species. Using comparative methods, we examine how different selective forces affect...

This chapter aims to illustrate the relationship between sociocultural globalisation and body image – globalising mechanisms appear to disseminate the Western standard of female and male beauty. Thus, the combination of ubiquitous messages for eating behaviours and beauty in both advertising and mass media programming may lead to confusion and body image dissatisfaction amongst many young peopl...

This study examined if men and women realize alterations in their body image when they are confronted with models posing for commercial advertisement. 124 female and male participants (mean age: 30 years; range: 18 to 60 years) were exposed to ads without models (control condition), to ads with male and female models (experimental group 1), or to ads with models only of their own sex (experimen...

We have reported several changes in neonate or adult offspring after the maternal use of whole flaxseed or its components. However, it is unknown the use of higher oil intake in the neonatal period. Here we evaluated the effects of high maternal intake of flaxseed oil during lactation upon milk and body composition in male and female offspring. Lactating rats were divided into: (1) control (C, ...