We studied the effects of weight loss and non-weight-bearing exercise (swimming) on blood and organ lead and essential metal concentrations in rats with prior lead exposure. Nine-week-old female Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 37) received lead acetate in their drinking water for 2 weeks, followed by a 4-day latency period without lead exposure. Rats were then randomly assigned to one of six treatment...

Forty-five Hisex commercial layers and forty-five local Saudi breed layers were used to determine the acceptable limit of short-term water restriction in the late phase of production, when the problem of high feed and water consumption is expected. The experiment was performed under hot and arid environmental conditions when the layers were at fifty weeks of age. Layers from each breed were ran...

CONTEXT Prolonged calorie restriction increases life span in rodents. Whether prolonged calorie restriction affects biomarkers of longevity or markers of oxidative stress, or reduces metabolic rate beyond that expected from reduced metabolic mass, has not been investigated in humans. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of 6 months of calorie restriction, with or without exercise, in overweight, ...

abstract. a practical common weight scalarizing function methodology with an improved discriminating power for technology selection is introduced. the proposed scalarizing function methodology enables the evaluation of the relative efficiency of decision-making units (dmus) with respect to multiple outputs and a single exact input with common weights. its robustness and discriminating power are...

Control of ration quantity and composition is important in the management of horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) or equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) that exhibit obesity and/or hyperinsulinemia. In obesity, restriction of daily dry matter intake to 1.25% to 1.5% of current body weight will facilitate weight loss and improvement in insulin sensitivity in most horses, although...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore whether a common variant in the FTO gene moderates the relationship between parental restriction and child BMI. METHODS This study reports on baseline data from 178 parent-child (ages 9-10 years) dyads. Parents completed the Child Feeding Questionnaire and reported on socio-demographic characteristics. Each child's height, weight and FTO rs9939609 genotyp...

This study aimed to determine Bangkok chicken’sphenotypic characteristics and growth hormone genes using the PCR-RFLP method. The samples used were 50 chickens. Research in field is taking phenotypic traits data. laboratory carried out by DNA isolation, amplification, restriction. showed that DOC weight,body weight, bodyweight gain of DOC-1 month, 1-2 months, 2-3 months chickens significantly d...

Because of the unreasonable and unnecessary weight restriction assumption, a barely noticeable deficiency in pseudo-inefficiency occurs at times when applying a CCR model. The CCR was the first model designed for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); it remains its most popular model. To detect this type of unobvious deficiency, this study compared the following: the efficiency score and optimal wei...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between physical activity during the second trimester pregnancy and low birth weight, preterm birth, and intrauterine growth restriction. METHODS Case-control study including 273 low birth weight newborns and 546 controls carried out in the city of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, in 2005. Low birth weight cases were grouped into two subsamples: preter...

OBJECTIVE Many individuals have difficulty adhering to a weight loss diet. One possible explanation could be that dietary restriction paradoxically contributes to overconsumption. The objective of this study was to examine ingestive behavior under a forced chocolate restriction with a focus on the anticipatory restriction period and the post-restriction period in frequent chocolate consumers. ...