Introduction There has recently been increased interest in the assessment of body
composition in patients with gastric cancer for the purpose of prognostication. This …

Background The ideal means of identifying obesity in children and adolescents has not
been determined although body mass index (BMI) is the most widely used screening tool …

The incidence of obesity in the United States and other developed countries is epidemic.
Because the prevalence of comorbidities to obesity, such as type 2 diabetes, has also …

The introduction of dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry (DXA) in the 1980s for the
assessment of areal bone mineral density (BMD) greatly benefited the field of bone imaging …

Abstract Background Low-energy diets (LEDs) comprise commercially formulated food
products that provide between 800 and 1200 kcal/day (3.3–5 MJ/day) to aid body weight …

This pilot study explored the feasibility of a moderate time-restricted feeding (TRF)
intervention and its effects on adiposity and metabolism. For 10 weeks, a free-living TRF …

Disorders of metabolic obesity with normal body weight (MONW) are widely recognized risk
factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. Despite this …

Context: Common concerns when using low-calorie diets as a treatment for obesity are the
reduction in fat-free mass, mostly muscular mass, that occurs together with the fat mass (FM) …

Objective: To compare body composition determined by bioelectrical impedance (BIA)
consumer devices against criterion estimates determined by whole body magnetic …

Abstract Colado, JC and Triplett, NT. Effects of a short-term resistance program using elastic
bands versus weight machines for sedentary middle-aged women. J Strength Cond Res 22 …