Search Results - subject:"Body composition"

ILIESCU, Antoanela - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 61 (2013) 2, pp. 263-267

determinating the body composition in order to corectly apreciate the nutritional status and capacity of effort. …The fundamental measure of health status and capacity of efort for non-athletes people is by determinating the body … composition. The procent of adipose tissue variates depending on age, sex, energy. For non-athletes people is important …

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Physical activity and time preference

Kosteas, Vasilios D. - In: International journal of health economics and management 15 (2015) 4, pp. 361-386

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Food prices and body fatness among youths

Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - In: Economics and human biology 12 (2014), pp. 4-19

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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition

Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012

We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and …

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In urban South Africa, 16 year old adolescents experience greater health equality than children

Griffiths, Paula L.; Johnson, William G.; Cameron, Noël; … - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 4, pp. 502-514

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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition

Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Does physical capacity explain the height premium?

Böckerman, Petri; Johansson, Edvard; Kiiskinen, Urpo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper examines the role of physical capacity in the determination of the height premium by using the “Health 2000 in Finland” data that contain both self-reported information on the physical strenuousness of work, and information on muscle mass from medical examinations. Our results show...

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BeefSpecs a tool for the future: On-farm drafting and optimising feedlot profitability

Walmsley, Brad; Oddy, V. Hutton; McPhee, Malcolm J.; … - In: AFBM Journal 07 (2010) 2

Special Edition Sheep and Cattle Production in New South Wales

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The Negative Association of Obesity with Subjective Well-Being: Is it All About Health?

Böckerman, Petri; Johansson, Edvard; Saarni, Samuli; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 15 (2014) 4, pp. 857-867

significantly lower levels of subjective well-being. We use comprehensive measures of body composition such as waist circumference …

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Food prices and body fatness among youths

Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - In: Economics & Human Biology 12 (2014) C, pp. 4-19

clinically measured levels of body composition rather than BMI to investigate the effects of food prices on obesity outcomes …

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