objective: the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents is increasing worldwide. the main aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of obesity and overweight among adolescent students11-19 year old in birjand, east of iran. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study in 2012 was conducted on 2453 students (1296 girls and 1157 boys) who had been selected through multi st...

  Background: To estimate and compare prevalence of overweight and obesity among adult people across the 22 districts of Tehran in 2011.   Method s: This was a cross-sectional study using data on 47,406 women and 47,525 men aged≥ 15 years from a large population-based survey (Urban HEART-2). Age-standardized prevalence (ASP) of overweight (25≤BMI<30) and obesity (BMI≥30) were estimated for the ...

physical fitness has an inverse correlation with systemic inflammation. this essence show that anti inflammatory effects of physical activity my explain some of its beneficial influences on body systems. then, regarding to the effects of physical training on biochemical and physiological aspects in human, this present study attempted to investigate the effect of resistance training on some of s...

introduction: since weight management is affected by various factors, including social and behavioral ones, this study aimed to explore the peoples’ experience of barriers and facilitators of weight management. materials and methods: this qualitative content analysis was conducted as the initial step of tabassom study. participants, who tried to reduce their weight at least once, were selected ...

background: according to the relationship between general and central obesity with chronic disease and also the effect of the dietary fatty acids on anthropometric measurements, the purpose of the current study was to assess the  effect of a mufa-rich diet on the anthropometric measurements indexes in overweight women. methods: this randomized cross-over clinical trial included 17 overweight wo...

objective: obesity is a major health problem. overweight and obesity have been identified as one of the 10 leading health indicators. this study was designed to evaluate the body mass index in iranian university student sample. materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study on 911 iranian university students aged 18-25 years who were selected by simple random sampling. weight, height a...

conclusions the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children under 5 years is high. overweight and obesity should be considered an epidemic and serious health problem in tehran. they certainly require more attention and intervention. results the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children were 12% and 23.7% respectively. the prevalence of overweight was significantly higher in girls th...

background: obesity and overweight, as the most common metabolic disorders, are great health problem during recent decades. obesity takes a role as independent or concordant risk factor for many diseases. so, it has a considerable share in burden of morbidities and mortalities. urbanization and its consequences in increasing of incomes and per capita energy uptake, besides the notable reduction...