Body Composition and Body Density of Japanese School Children

Familial Resemblance of Body Composition, Physical Activity, and Resting Metabolic Rate in Pre-School Children

Background: Although parental obesity is a well-established predisposing factor for the development of obesity, associations between regional body compositions, resting metabolic rates (RMR), and physical activity (PA) of parents and their pre-school children remain unknown. The objective of this study was to investigate parent-child correlations for total and regional body compositions, restin...

Anthropometry and body composition of school children in Bahrain

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study was conducted because of the lack of a comprehensive nationwide assessment of data on the anthropometric status and related health problems in Bahraini school children aged 6 to 18 years. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted on the anthropometric status of school children enrolled in the primary, intermediate and secondary government...

Body composition in children.

Comparison of body composition and physical activity of nomadic and urban school students

Prior research on body composition and physical activity among youth is little and irregular. The purpose of this study comparison of body composition and Physical activity nomadic and urban students.Thus, a population including 119 urban student with the age mean 13/47± ./92, and 125 nomadic student with the age mean 13/95± 1/1selected randomly from chahar mahal bakhtiari province and then, ...

Body Composition and Fitness in Elite Spanish Children Body Composition and Fitness in Elite Spanish Children

The aims of this study were to describe body composition and physical fitness changes during a wholeseason in elite children tennis players. A total of 7 elite children tennis players participated in the study. Whole body composition by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and physical fitness were assessed during a season. Subjects increased lean and bone percentage, and decreased abdominal ...