B. (2012). The role of body fat in female attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 672-681.Faries MD, Bartholomew JB (2012) The role of body fat in female attractiveness. Evol Hum Behav 33: 672-681.Faries, M. D., & Bartholomew, J. B. (2012). The role of body fat in...
Central Role of the Skeleton in Chronic Diseases Ian R. Reid, in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2010 Abstract Body weight is a principal determinant of bone density and fracture risk, and adipose tissue mass is a major contributor to this relationship. In contrast, some recent studies...
Role of Deep Abdominal Fat in the Association Between Regional Adipose Tissue Distribution and Glucose Tolerance in Obese Women Computed tomography (CT) was used to study the association between adipose tissue localization and glucose tolerance in a sample of 52 premenopausal obese ... JP Després,A...
On the other hand, elements such as As, Cr, Cd and Pb are undesirable due to their toxicity and adverse role in the body metabolism46,47. Our own research shows that the accumulation of these elements is not affected by the type of body fat. However, the effect of age is noticeable ...
In sex role reversed species, females and males adopt behaviors that are not the traditional ones for that animal group. Furthermore, this reversal can translate into physiological differences between the sexes in characteristics such as energetic demands or immune response. Allocosa brasiliensis shows...
M. (2008). The role of sisters in body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating. Sex Roles, 59, 81–93. doi:10.1007/s11199-008-9413-7. Article Google Scholar Dasgupta, N., & Asgari, S. (2004). Seeing is believing: Exposure to counterstereotypic women leaders and its effect on ...
There is a need for data on birth BC and its predictors from low-income countries in transition. We assessed absolute FM and FFM at birth and examined the role of gender, parity, GA, and LBW as predictors of birth BC. FM and FFM were assessed within 48 h of birth on 350 Ethiopian ...
Despite being a well-known phenomenon, to date, we have only identified a few publications that explicitly looked at the role of sex in the response to HFD in mice.11, 12, 13, 14 Typically with metabolic studies, the treatment will be associated with a weight change. However, body weight...
Regulation of growth hormone (GH) gene expression and secretion during pregnancy and lactation in the rat: role of insulin-like growth factor-I, somatostat... GH appears to play an important metabolic role during late pregnancy and in lactation maintenance. In this study, pregnant (days 8, 15...
Taken together, this pattern of results suggests that social comparison does not influence body ideals, but rather, other characteristics of a single-sex and mixed-sex environment do. What these characteristics may be (e.g. presence of men, exposure to counterstereotypic role models) are ...