BACKGROUND The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity increased during the 1980s to the late 1990s. The prevalence of obesity is higher in socially and economically disadvantaged communities in most Westernised countries. The purpose of this study was to examine how the socioeconomic gradient in weight status, namely thinness, overweight and obesity, changes over time in a longitudinal ...

Background. The grain coat plays a major role in the development of rye cultivars with low levels water-soluble pentosans (WSP). Grain thinness is diagnostic trait for WSP (arabinoxylans) content. To improve technology low-pentosan breeding, it becomes important to study effect changes anatomy grains on morphological characteristics. Materials and methods. Grains thin coats (transparent) were i...

Virtual reality technologies can be used to alter one’s body image by inducing ownership of an overweight virtual body. This illusion possibly lead both negative affective responses toward the as well perceptual changes own size, which are scarcely examined with regard embodiment avatar. study’s fundamental aim is investigate, among healthy weight participants, whether affect a and in body-size...

Introductory psychology students (120 females and 120 males) rated attractiveness and fecundity of one of six computer-altered female Ž gures representing three body-weight categories (underweight, normal weight and overweight) and two levels of waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), one in the ideal range (0.72) and one in the non-ideal range (0.86). Both females and males judged underweight Ž gures to be ...