The relative size of the effects of fitness and fatness on longevity has been studied in only one cohort. The authors examined this issue using data from 2,506 women and 2,860 men in the Lipid Research Clinics Study. The mean age was 46.6 years in women and 45.1 years in men at baseline (1972-1976). Fitness was assessed using a treadmill test, and fatness was assessed as body mass index calcula...

In contemporary Western society, fatness speaks for itself, affirming the fat person as an aesthetic and moral failure even before they say a word. Fat bodies, female bodies in particular, are produced reproduced sites of excess obscenity. Christian theology has protected itself from contaminating touch by ignoring theological discourse. Especially concerning is relative absence ‘fat talk’ libe...

Theoretical models argue that poor health will contribute to early exit from the labor market and the decision to take early Social Security retirement benefits (Old-Age or OA benefits). However, most empirical estimates of the causal importance of health on the decision to take early OA benefits have been forced to rely on global measures such as self-rated work limitations or self-rated healt...

The aims of this study are 1) to analyse developmental trajectories of body fatness from adolescence into adulthood, hereby determining the number and characteristics of distinct body fatness trajectories, and 2) to relate these distinct subgroups to indicators of cardiovascular disease risk, revealing subgroups specifically at risk. Furthermore, this paper will illustrate in more detail the ap...

The study examined the relations of serum vitamin D levels to body fatness, cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), and metabolic risk factors in young adults in Korea. A total of 593 young men completed a health examination, body fatness, maximal treadmill exercise test, and assessment of metabolic risk factors. Participants were classified by serum vitamin D levels as deficient (< 20 ng/mL), insuffi...

Disclosed herein are genetic markers for animal growth, appetite and fatness, methods for identifying such markers, and methods of screening animals to determine those more likely to produce desired growth, appetite and fatness and preferably selecting those animals for future breeding purposes. The markers are based upon the presence or absence of certain polymorphisms in the Ghrelin gene.

BACKGROUND Blood pressure (BP) increases with age and obesity. We have assessed the relative contribution of age and fatness to BP regulation in a healthy population investigated by nurse practitioners. MATERIAL AND METHODS Preventive investigation and counseling was offered at the entrance hall of the regional authority´s office in the town of Nitra by 2 nursing specialists who investigated ...

Virtually all social science research related to obesity studies a person's body mass index (BMI). Yet there is wide agreement in the medical literature that BMI is seriously flawed because it does not distinguish fat from fat-free mass such as muscle and bone. This paper studies data that include multiple measures of fatness and finds that many important patterns, such as who is classified as ...

Since the establishment of “obesity epidemic” narrative in 1990s, several social ills have been attributed to fatness: among them urban sprawl, automatization, consumerism, working mothers, a crisis self-reliance, decay religious values as well deterioration traditional family general and dinner particular, name only few. However, describing fatness symptom unwanted developments is pastime not ...

Fatness is one of the major factors affecting the market value of hogs and hog carcasses. The preference of consumers for the leaner cuts of meat and the competition of vegetable oils have resulted in comparatively low prices for lard, fat cuts, and very fat hogs. Breeders and research workers are consequently endeavoring to select and establish types and strains of hogs that will produce the m...