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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"fatness"”.
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Facial fatness as a complicating factor in facial reconstruction
… individual because they ignore the variation in fatness. An initial study determined if a corrective value for the non - linear distortion found between radiographic images and the physical tissues was needed. This was done by imaging cadaver heads and taking measurements from the images and the …
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Taste sensitivity, eating behavior, and body fatness of preschool children
The possible relationship between body fatness and taste sensitivity was studied. Twenty-five preschool children aged 42 to 61 months served as subjects. Heights, weights, arm circumferences, and triceps skinfolds were measured. Taste sensitivity to quinine sulfate and sucrose was assessed with …
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A Fat Chance in Health: Examining the relationship between 'obesity' discourses, fatness, and conceptions of health
… fat person. Indeed, the contemporary framing of fatness as a disease manifested through poor lifestyle choices reduces many conversations about health and fatness to the effective elimination of fat people through weight-loss. This thesis examines the complex relationship between discourses of …
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The Effect Role Modeling and the Apparent Fatness of a Physical Educator has on Student Learning and Attitudes
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a physical education instructor appearing overweight versus lean, and role modeling exercise behavior versus “do as I say” on student learning and attitudes.</p><p>The results indicated that role modeling desired behavior had a …
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Youth fitness testing in South African primary school children : national normative data, fitness and fatness, and effects of socioeconomic status
Overweight, obesity and declining levels of physical fitness have been identified as a problem in many developed countries (1). More recently concern has been raised as a result of the rapid increase in the prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in developing nations ((2); (3); (4); (5)). …
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Improved characterisation of measures of fatness and metabolic risks in older adolescents and young adults in the South Asian population in the UK
Increasing concerns about obesity and related metabolic risk have demanded better measures to identify individuals who are at higher health risk. This is particularly important in minority ethnic groups, especially those with a South Asian (SA) heritage. Variation in body composition between …
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Efectos de la condición física y la adiposidad sobre indicadores de salud cardiovascular en niños y adolescentes: estudio longitudinal up&down
… (CRF) and muscular fitness (MF), and fatness are considered key elements for the cardiovascular risk identification, given their close association with the previously mentioned markers. Both, fitness and fatness provide a quicker and relatively simple way to identify those at risk of …
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Love Through a Wide-Angle Lens: A Mythic Narrative and Feminist Critique of the Reality Competition Dating Show More to Love
… has also risen to the charge of representing fatness. More to Love was the first reality competition dating show to afford fat women a chance at reality show love. The purpose of the study was to look at how fat women are portrayed on reality competition dating shows. The purpose of this study …
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Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four—Can’t Get Through the Dressing Room Door?: An Examination of Excess as Queer Failure
… I understand queer failure in the context of fatness as being imbued with a potentiality for creation. In addition, Love frames my queer temporal understanding of fatness as “looking behind” even as one traverses the linearity of straight time (5). In doing this, I connect the ways in which …
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The influence of ethnicity, socioeconomic status and obesity intervention on body composition in UK children and adolescents
… The first study examined body dimensions and fatness in two groups of children from contrasting income backgrounds. Findings showed that children from the 'lower income’ were on average (for their age) shorter in height, heavier in weight with a higher BMI and %BF although abdominal fatness …
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I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus
… and desire produced by interactions between fatness, queerness, and “white trashiness” on the terrain of late-twentieth-century representational and lived southern culture, and specifically how queer and “white trash” embodiments are both legible in terms of fatness, much in the way that …
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Mothering Out of Bounds: Inequality and Resistance in Fat Motherhood
… order to expand sociological understandings of fatness, health, gender, and inequality in motherhood. It highlights parallel mechanisms of surveillance (for example, between fat and poor mothers) to show how society constructs who "should" and "should not" be parents. Based on a series of 36 …
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Relationship of Body Composition, Strength, and Asymmetry to Lower Extremity Physical Function in Women: Impact of Age and Physical Activity Level
… not significant until over 60 years of age. Body fatness increased with age. Age was the best predictor of LEPF overall; however, when age was controlled for, body fatness was the best predictor. When analyzing the data by age groups, the young women were less fat and LEPF was more strongly …
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Lot 17 and Other Stories
… Floating,” absurdism in "Lot 17,” realism in "Fatness”, southern gothic in "Pidgin”. The story "Dancing Boy at the Intersection” experiments in form and point of view. Combined, these stories offer various ways for readers to participate in short fiction.
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Bodyweight and Shape in Early Modern Germany c. 1480-1620
… in early modern Germany. It considers what ‘fatness’ and ‘thinness’ signified culturally for contemporaries, and examines ideas about the ‘fashionable’ body in this period. It is often assumed that concern with bodyweight and shape is a modern phenomenon and that, if fatness was considered in …
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Navigating the fat queer body: the impact of cultural discourses on identity construction and belonging
… how normative discourses and ideas about fatness and queerness come together to impact fat queer people's experience with their gender expression. A thematic and discourse analysis of fat queer people's personal narratives shows that fat queer people are impacted by how others view their …
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The Imperatives of Health and Weight in Primary Care Clinics: Current and Envisioned Practices
… malleability of bodies and behaviours, interpret fatness as failure, and reinforce individual responsibility for health. Clinicians’ responses to patients’ face-saving talk, and the ways in which clinicians used epidemiological knowledge to guide action varied. In the continuing professional …
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A comprehensive approach to determining the nutritional and sensory properties of today's cooked pork
… parameters of center loin chops whereas carcass fatness (low or high) and trim level (0.0 cm or 0.6 cm) did not. Fat retention was not affected by trim level as previously reported in the literature. Cooking method significantly affected all cooking parameters, vitamin retentions, composition, …
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Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
… and overdetermined relationship between food, fatness, and “epidemic” debility became a cipher for the specifically causative or agential powers of matter and affect. I show, however, that these powers have already been thought otherwise in the overlapping contexts of black studies and …
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