It found every 10% rise in body mass index (BMI) - used as an indicator of body fat - led to a 4% drop of available vitamin D in the body.
It's little short of criminal that John Travolta, who plays Edna Turnblad, hasn't made a musical in a quarter of a century, and if he has to put on a housedress, a wig and a full-body fat suit to get to do this one, then so be it.
To perhaps the greatest amusement of outsiders, Arthur suggested that some players had unacceptably high numbers of skinfolds, a measure of body-fat percentage and indirectly of fitness.
"More is not necessarily better...some vitamins and minerals can be toxic in high doses, " particularly the fat-soluble ones which the body stores like Vitamins A, D, E and K, explained Claire Williamson, Nutrition Scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation.
Dr Blumberg believes the compound interferes with the body's normal fat-formation process, and puts its fat-storage mechanism on overdrive, plumping up the person.
He had also reached his goal to get his body fat under 10 percent -- from a high of 44 percent to 6.5 percent.
Conversely, BMI may underestimate body fat in a very small-framed person, someone who has very little muscle mass, or a person who carries his or her excess weight mainly around the midsection and has very thin arms and legs (the so called apple shaped body type).
What you need is the scale that not only weighs you, it uses bio-electrical impedance to measure your body fat.
Over the years, he's been working on a technique called "plastination" that replaces the water and fat inside a body's tissues with polymers -- sticky, hard-drying plastics.
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She needs to reduce her waist size a bit more, which she can do by doing more muscle-strengthening exercise to lower her percentage of body fat.
What the researchers did was give rats two substances found in foods: Omega-3 fatty acids, a kind of fat that the body can't make enough of on its own, and uridine, one of the building blocks of DNA, which promotes a cell's energy-making process.
It also recently launched its Wi-Fi Smart Scale, which transmits your weight, body fat and body mass index to the cloud.
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In a very large-framed or muscular person like you, BMI may overestimate body fat.
The body produces less healthy estrogen, and more estrone -- a type of estrogen that comes from your body's fat tissue.
The upshot was that the fat-retaining livers were rich in a variety of proteins known to help the body digest and store food.
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It also changed the chemical signals coming from the digestive system - which led to changes in the way fat was processed elsewhere in the body.
Dioxin, which is fat soluble, has a "half-life" of seven years in the body: It takes that long to break down half the quantity of the compound.
But they argue that this is probably because they inadvertently consume fewer calories, rather than because of the mechanism suggested by Dr Atkins whereby the body switches from a carbohydrate-burning metabolism to a mainly fat-burning metabolism.
If Huang or others can successfully use nanotechnology to create junk food that tastes as good as ever but has fat and sugar replacements, or perhaps employs nano-particles that prevent fat or calories from being absorbed and stored by the body, then they've got the holy grail of food.
There is strong scientific evidence that excess body fat is a risk factor for cancer, as well as other non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.
The nutritional condition of all the children in the study was also assessed, in the form of their body-mass indices (BMI), a measure of how much fat their bodies contained.
Another interesting age-related anomaly concerns the decrease in total body water and the relative increase in body fat seen in older people.
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"With low-fat diets, we see a lot of skinny fat, where they get lean, but their body fat goes up because they're losing muscle, " Jampolis said.
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