OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships between body weight perceptions, estimated body mass index, gender, and weight control behaviours. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Three secondary schools in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1132 secondary school forms 1 and 3 students. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The strength of agreement between perceived weight and estimated body mass index, ...

PURPOSE Primary care providers (PCPs) play an important role in identifying and counseling obese patients to lose weight, but it is unknown whether PCP referral of patients into a weight loss intervention is associated with greater weight loss. The objectives are to determine if PCP referral is associated with greater 1) weight loss, 2) end of study patient-provider relationship quality, and 3)...

PURPOSE This study were to assess the relationships among BMI, body weight perception, and efforts to lose weight in a public sample of Korean women who are overweight and obese and to examine the mediating role of body weight perception on the relationship between BMI and weight loss efforts. METHODS This cross-sectional study used data from the 2008 Korea National Health and Nutrition Exami...

Gibel carp is a very successful invasive fish species in the waters of Georgian inland and the only fish species in Lake Madatapa. However, almost nothing is known about its biology and morpho-ecological peculiarities at the national level and even the distribution data is not documented. For the first time, we studied the population characteristics of gibel carp in Lake Madatapa (South Georgia...

Abstract Scomberoides commersonnianus is one of the commercially important fishes of the family Carangidae. In this study, 563 specimens (292 males, 247 females, and 24 sexually unknown ones) were collected from the north-west of the Persian Gulf. Length-weight relationships and condition factors were determined for each sex in four length classes within different seasons. In general, the growt...