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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Slimming"”.
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The treatment of obesity : an evaluation of different methods of administering dietary advice
… of advising the obese and overweightincluding slimming groups and traditional individual counselling. The "multi-professional" approach to administering dietary advice was also reviewed using two groups in cardiac rehabilitation programmes.Dietary assessments by food records, nutrition …
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The Effects of Ready Meal Consumption on Self- reported Appetite Ratings and Subsequent Food Intake in Females
… low in fibre (Reimers et al. 2011; WHO, 2018). Slimming World, a commercial weight management organisation has designed a range of ready meals in line with their weight management programme, which advocates an unrestricted intake of low energy dense food in order to aid in weight loss. Hence, it …
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What is willpower? A qualitative exploration of how people struggling to lose weight understand the term
… a purposive sampling approach, 16 customers from Slimming World (a UK-based weight loss organisation) were recruited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Questions were asked about their understandings of willpower and how it influences their wellbeing. Thematic analysis was applied to …
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Learning Neural Network Architecture from Data: NAS and Dynamic Networks
… of dynamic network, we explore a dynamic network slimming regime, named Dynamic Slimmable Network (DS-Net), which aims to achieve good hardware-efficiency via dynamically adjusting filter numbers of networks at test time with respect to different inputs, while keeping filters stored statically and …
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Men's talk about food: a discourse analysis
… speakers downplay the likelihood of buying slimming foods and characterise weight as un-problematic. However, they also stress that their weight is monitored. Similarly, respondents reject feeling guilty about food but demonstrate that their food consumption is not unregulated. In relation …
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'Food, Body Weight, and Everyday Life in England, c. 1954–1990'
… a history of female homosociality. Although the slimming industry is often linked to patriarchal oppression, women derived enjoyment and a sense of autonomy from the rise of group dieting practices in the late 1960s. I argue, thirdly, that ‘body consciousness’ pre-dated the 1960s, as seen in …
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From fable to court: tracing the curation of indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case
… and commercial trials in an attempt to develop slimming drugs for commercialisation. A landmark royalty and benefit-sharing agreement in 2002/3 awarded intellectual property compensation to the San community for commercial exploitation of their traditional knowledge. Although there have been …
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CPDICENTER : Web-based virtual construction project document information center in support of claims preparation
… unanimous on how to solve this problem and with slimming contractor profits (due to severe competition and increased modern projects' complexity) the construction industry has not invested sufficiently to develop data schemas to represent project documents' contents, or context. Modeling such …
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Towards a more specific model of anorectic pathogenesis: Parental selfobject use of the pre-anorectic child.
… the anorectic's self-perfecting in the form of slimming is seen to exemplify an "adult" version of an earlier strategy for the avoidance of shame and self-rejection. As this strategy, however, essentially represents the misapplication of a local solution to a global problem, in contradistinction …