BACKGROUND Liquid feeding system has been introduced to domestic swine farms, but negative cognition about liquid feeding system has been remained for feed waste decay related with poor management and microbial contamination. For these reasons, this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of feeding method in lactating sows. METHODS A total of 30 mixed-parity (average 4.13) lactating sows...

BACKGROUND Years spent in college represents a critical time for obesity development though little information is known regarding how body weight and composition changes beyond the first year of college. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in body weight and composition and the factors influencing those changes among sophomore females. METHODS Body composition by dual energy X-ra...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the associations between birth weight (BW), infancy, and childhood weight gain and adult body composition. METHODS Subjects included participants of five birth cohort studies from low and middle income nations (Brazil, Guatemala, India, Philippines, and South Africa; n = 3432). We modeled adult body composition as a function of BW and conditional weight gain (CW), repre...

Carcass analysis data show that weanling rats fed high-fat (HF) and low-fat (LF) diets until the day of first estrus had similar body compositions at estrus, although the HF rats had estrus significantly earlier and at a lighter body weight (P less than 0.01) than the LF-diet rats. Total water as percent of wet weight, protein as percent of wet weight, and the water/protein ratios of the HF- an...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of fat supplementation for enhancing milk conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in early lactation without affecting ruminal fermentation. 24 Holstein dairy cows were assigned to a completely randomized design employing a 2 × 4 factorial arrangement. Factors were particle size (15 and 25 mm) and two different sources of alfalfa supplemented with and wit...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the variations in body weight, food intake, and body composition of both male and female C57BL/6J mice during a diet-induced obesity model with high-fat diet (HFD) feeding. METHODS Mice were individually housed and fed ad libitum either a low-fat diet (LFD, 10% calories from fat; n = 15 male, n = 15 female) or HFD (45% calories from fat; n = 277 male, n = 278 female) ...

The effects of age, sex and season on the live weight and weight of liver, etherextractable fats, fat-free weight and gizzard contents were examined for starlings in Canterbury, New Zealand. Starling live weights varied with age and with the seasonal deposition or mobilization of fat and other stored foods. In spring and summer, non-breeding first-year birds carried relatively more fat than adu...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of a standardised training programme focusing on maintenance of fat free mass during weight reduction by energy reduction in obese children. DESIGN Randomised trial of physical training programme and dietary advice (group A) versus dietary advice alone (group B). SUBJECTS Thirty obese children and adolescents (14 group A, 16 group B) participated in the 12 week...

In children with cystic fibrosis, objective parameters of exercise tolerance are needed which are easy to measure in nonspecialized centres. We investigated maximal workload (W'max) in children with cystic fibrosis in relation to body weight and fat-free mass, and compared this with results for maximal oxygen consumption (V'O2,max). Fourteen patients with cystic fibrosis performed an incrementa...