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Skin-fold thickness and body fat in children.
G. B. Forbes,G. H. Amirhakimi +1 more
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This article is published in Human Biology.The article was published on 1970-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 53 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Skin fold & Classification of obesity.read more
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Body fat assessed from total body density and its estimation from skinfold thickness: measurements on 481 men and women aged from 16 to 72 years
J. V. G. A. Durnin,J. Womersley +1 more
TL;DR: Skinfold thicknesses at four sites – biceps, triceps, subscapular and supra-iliac – and total body density were measured on 209 males and 272 females aged from 16 to 72 years, finding it necessary to use the logarithm of skinfold measurements in order to achieve a linear relationship with body density.
Reducing Obesity via a School-Based Interdisciplinary Intervention Among Youth
Steven L. Gortmaker,Karen E. Peterson,Jean L. Wiecha,Arthur M. Sobol,Sujata Dixit,Mary Kay Fox,Nan M. Laird +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, Planet Health sessions were included within existing curricula using classroom teachers in 4 major subjects and physical education, focusing on decreasing television viewing, decreasing consumption of high-fat foods, increasing fruit and vegetable intake, and increasing moderate and vigorous physical activity.
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Reducing obesity via a school-based interdisciplinary intervention among youth: Planet Health
Steven L. Gortmaker,Karen E. Peterson,Jean L. Wiecha,Arthur M. Sobol,Sujata Dixit,Sujata Dixit,Mary Kay Fox,Nan M. Laird +7 more
TL;DR: Planet Health decreased obesity among female students, indicating a promising school-based approach to reducing obesity among youth.
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Increasing pediatric obesity in the United States.
TL;DR: Blood pressure data from the four surveys suggest that the share of pediatric hypertension associated with obesity has increased and rapid increases in obesity indicate that environmental causes are likely responsible.
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Urinary creatinine excretion and lean body mass.
Gilbert B. Forbes,G J Bruining +1 more
TL;DR: In a group of 34 adult and child subjects a high correlation was found between lean body mass, as determined by potassium-40 counting, and urinary creatinine excretion, and it appears that one can make a reasonable estimate of lean body body mass from urinary creat inane excretion.
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The assessment of the amount of fat in the human body from measurements of skinfold thickness
J. V. G. A. Durnin,M. M. Rahaman +1 more
TL;DR: A table gives the percentage of the body-weight as fat from the measurement of skin-fold thickness, which was calculated to predict body fat from skinfolds with an error of about ±3.5%.
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Prediction of total adiposity from skinfolds and the curvilinear relationship between external and internal adiposity.
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Age and sex trends in lean body mass calculated from k40 measurements: with a note on the theoretical basis for the procedure.
Gilbert B. Forbes,John B. Hursh +1 more
TL;DR: The availability of modem techniques for the assessment of body composition in living subjects has brought about a renewed interest in this field of human physiology and this report is concerned with one such modern approach; namely the estimation of lean body mass and its derived parameter fat, from the body content of potassium.
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Measures of body fat and hydration in adolescent boys.
TL;DR: The skinfold technique at this site provided a practical and accurate estimate of adiposity in adolescent boys, and the triceps skinfold has a high correlation in estimating losses in fat during adolescence.
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