The Delboeuf concentric circle illusion is frequently invoked as an explanation for the hypothesized association between dinner plate size and overeating. We examined its association with adiposity among 162 girls, aged 14-18 years. We also examined the association of adiposity with neural and behavioral responses during a separate visual discrimination task. The analysis showed that girls with...

Abstract The aim of this study was to verify the effect pinch size on skinfold thickness measurement and consequent interference in estimation classification body adiposity components. Cross-sectional quantitative carried out with a sample 29 subjects recruited from university city Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Four steps were performed at each site eight chosen skinfolds. first step subjective-lan...

BACKGROUND Evidence on the adiposity-mental health associations is mixed, with studies finding positive, negative or no associations, and less is known about how these associations may vary by age. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of adiposity -body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and percentage body fat (BF%)- with mental health functioning across the adult lifespan. METHODS...

Purpose To examine the associations between muscular fitness (MF) and body composition.Method MF was assessed with three tests of FitnessGram test battery. Total fat percentage (BF%), abdominal (AF%) fat-free mass (FFM) were measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The IOTF index (BMI) cut-offs used to define healthy weight, overweight, obesity.Results inversely associated BF% AF%. c...

background : adiponectin is an anti-inflammatory and antiatherogenic protein that has a protective effect against athero­sclero­sis and diabetes. it is exclusively secreted by adipose tissue. serum adiponectin levels are inversely associated with pa­rame­ters of overall adiposity including body mass index (bmi), fat mass, and percentage of body fat. methods : in a cross-sectional study of 76 wo...

Body fat mass (FM) adds to the variance in resting energy expenditure (REE). However, the nature and extent of this relationship remains unclear. Using a database of 1306 women and a linear regression model, we systematically analysed the contribution of FM to the total variance in REE at different grades of adiposity (ranges of body %FM). After adjusting for age, the relative contribution of F...

OBJECTIVE The design of effective obesity interventions to reduce adiposity and increase fitness in minority children is a public health priority. This study assessed the effectiveness of a summer intervention in lowering adiposity and increasing aerobic endurance in minority girls. METHODS 99 Hispanic and African American girls and their mothers participated. During the intervention, girls a...

OBJECTIVE A number of measures of childhood adiposity are in use, but all are relatively imprecise and prone to bias. We constructed an adiposity index (AI) using a number of different measures. METHODS Detailed body composition data on 460 of the Gateshead Millennium Study cohort at the age of 6-8 years were analysed. The AI was calculated using factor analysis on age plus thirteen measures ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of obesity is increasing, and there is evidence that obesity, in particular abdominal obesity as a marker of insulin resistance, is negatively associated with pulmonary function. The mechanism for this association and the best marker of abdominal adiposity in relation to pulmonary function is not known. STUDY OBJECTIVE We assessed the association between pulmonary fu...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of interval and continuous training on the body mass gain and adiposity levels of rats fed a high-fat diet. Forty-eight male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into two groups, standard diet and high-fat diet, and received their respective diets for a period of four weeks without exercise stimuli. After this period, the animals were randomly di...