BACKGROUND Fatness and fitness both influence cardiometabolic risk. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate whether childhood fatness and increasing fatness from childhood to adolescence are associated with cardiometabolic risk during adolescence and how fitness affects this association. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Of 565 adolescents (283 boys and 282 girls) from the TRacking Adoles...

Two studies examined restrained and unrestrained eaters' implicit and explicit attitudes toward fatness and thinness. Participants completed measures of implicit and explicit attitudes toward fatness and thinness (Studies 1 and 2), and a measure of the internalization of sociocultural attitudes toward thinness (Study 2). Restrained and unrestrained eaters both had strong implicit negative attit...

In contemporary Western culture, fatness and singlehood are constructed as requiring change: from fat to thin, single coupled. Makeover shows with a dating theme that focus on both aspects in connection each other have become increasingly widespread, aiming for the makeover of one’s life relationship status through body. I analyze show Fat Chance theoretical context rites passage applying conce...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to determine the validity of simple epidemiological and clinical methods for the assessment of body fatness in preschool children. METHODS In 89 children (42 boys, 47 girls; mean age 4.1 SD 1.3y) measures of body fatness were made using total body water (TBW), dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), air displacement plethysmography (BODPOD) and skinfold thick...

Being overweight or obese might be a risk factor for developing depression. It is also possible that low cardiorespiratory fitness, rather than overweight or obesity, is the better predictor of depressive symptom onset. Adults in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (Dallas, Texas) underwent fitness and fatness assessments between 1979 and 1998 and later completed a questionnaire about depres...

INTRODUCTION Microvascular function has been proposed to link body fatness to CVD and DM2. Current knowledge of these relationships is mainly based on studies in selected populations of extreme phenotypes. Whether these findings can be translated to the general population remains to be investigated. AIM To assess the relationship of body fatness and body fat distribution with microvascular fu...

We introduce the fatness parameter of a 4-dimensional polytope P, defined as φ(P) = ( f1 + f2)/( f0 + f3). It arises in an important open problem in 4-dimensional combinatorial geometry: Is the fatness of convex 4polytopes bounded? We describe and analyze a hyperbolic geometry construction that produces 4-polytopes with fatness φ(P) > 5.048, as well as the first infinite family of 2-simple, 2-s...

OBJECTIVE Growing emphasis on obesity as a risk factor for chronic diseases and commercial availability of impedance devices for the at-home assessment of body fatness have stimulated the need for a critical evaluation of the validity of these instruments. This study determined the reproducibility and accuracy of two commercial impedance devices that use upper (hand-to-hand) or lower (foot-to-f...

OBJECTIVE To examine the ability of various body mass index (BMI)-for-age categories, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 85th to 94th percentiles, to correctly classify the body fatness of children and adolescents. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING The New York Obesity Research Center at St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital from 1995 to 2000. PARTICIPANTS Healthy 5- to 18-ye...