Patient assessment should begin with a determination of the body mass index (BMI). The patient’s weight and height are used to calculate the patient’s BMI, which is considered to be an indirect measurement of body fat. After the BMI is known, patients can be further separated into classes. Assessment should also include waist circumference, because excess abdominal fat has been shown to be an i...

Growth rate was 35, 32 and 29 g/d, food consumption was 87, 99 and 69 g/d, FCR was 2.54, 3.18 and 2.38, total body fat was 12.7, 16.2 and 11.3%, abdominal fat was 2.91, 3.91 and 2.06%,-metabolisability of dietary energy was 75.4, 73.8 and 77.0%, and daily maintenance energy requirement was 860, 937 and 796 kJ/kg W' in lines W, F and E respectively. Average reproductive performance in terms of d...

introduction: inappropriate body composition represents impaired energy and nutrient intake and can be a risk factor for many diseases, especially for cardiovascular disease. different methods have been suggested for the estimation of body fat volume and its distribution. however, they may be either expensive or hazardous for some groups of patients. sonography is a very accessible technique, w...

Abstract Background Excess fat accumulation around the heart (i.e., pericardial fat) is positively associated with cardiovascular disease. Pericardial composed of two distinct depots: (1) epicardial fat, which a metabolically active adipose tissue located between and pericardium, (2) paracardial deposit in mediastinum outside parietal pericardium. Both depots are visible on horizontal long axis...

Background: Bioactive fatty acids such as the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and the modified fatty acid analogue, tetradecylthioacetic acid (TTA), are known to influence inflammatory processes in the body. Our aim was to investigate if diets containing fish oil (FO) enriched with bioactive fatty acids could affect inflammation and development of glandular stomach ca...

the hypothesis of this experiment was that the various sources of dietary fat with different dietary ratios of polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufas) to saturated fatty acids (sfas) would alter the reproduction parameters of mature rams. twelve mature rams were randomly allotted to one of four dietary treatments in a completely randomized design. dietary treatments were: 1) ration with 4% soybean ...

Male and female emus were fed a diet rich in saturated fat (beef tallow) or a diet rich in unsaturated fat (soybean oil) until they weighed about 35 kg. Samples of subcutaneous and retroperitoneal adipose tissues and samples of six major meat cuts were taken for determination of composition. Emus fed the two different diets grew at similar rates, but the male emus had a higher percentage of car...

In recent years, several studies focused their attention on the role of dietary fats in the pathogenesis of hepatic steatosis. It has been demonstrated that a high-fat diet is able to induce hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, obesity, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. On the other hand, krill oil, a novel dietary supplement of n-3 PUFAs, has the ability to improve lipid and glucose metabolism...

Efficiency, defined as the amount of work produced for a given amount of oxygen consumed, is a key determinant of endurance capacity, and can be altered by metabolic substrate supply, in that fatty acid oxidation is less efficient than glucose oxidation. It is unclear, however, whether consumption of a high-fat diet would be detrimental or beneficial for endurance capacity, due to purported gly...