Weight and mass are not equivalent as weight can change with gravitational changes.
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They measured height, weight and body mass index - calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
The loss in weight and body mass is driven by a metabolic disease manifested by increased energy consumption.
Dr Golomb and her team believe that antioxidant compounds, called catechins, can improve lean muscle mass and reduce weight - at least studies in rodents would suggest this might be so.
Not only are you healthier as a result, your comprehensive exercise program, which includes cardiovascular and weight-bearing exercise, is preventing further weight gain and allowing you to maintain muscle mass so your metabolism does not drop significantly as you get older.
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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The scale relays your weight, fat mass, and BMI to your smartphone or computer, letting you chart a curve as your own curves expand or shrink.
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Finally, while all that mass, weight and size may create a safe cocoon for truck occupants, it can create disastrous mismatches with cars, and even greater consequences for pedestrians.
But when they became adults, the mice fed a high fat diet showed four times the neurogenesis of the normal mice, and gained significantly more weight and had much higher fat mass.
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On average they gain 32.6%, 40.9% and 46.8% additional dry weight mass, respectively, when grown in air containing an extra 300, 600, and 900 parts per million of CO2.
Larger mass and heavier weight require more energy to accelerate, and more energy to decelerate.
If the computer programming is supple enough and the on-board processing is fast enough, engineers can now virtually nullify effects caused by vehicle height, weight, roll centers and center of mass.
The study, by a joint team from the US National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado, classed normal weight as someone with a body mass index below 25, overweight over 25 but below 30, and obese as 30 and above.
Cage would clearly like his games to have the kind of mass appeal, and cultural weight that we give to film.
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All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
Its clear that strength training using weight machines, free weights or resistance bands can help build and preserve muscle mass and strength.
Peter's Basilica was somber during the Mass, as if the weight of Benedict's decision and the finality of his pontificate had finally registered with the thousands of faithful present.
And the best way to increase fat burning, as many of these weight-loss supplements claim to do, is to move more and increase your muscle mass.
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Although the trial has several limitations, children in the low sugar group scored significantly lower across multiple measures of obesity, including BMI, weight, skinfold-thickness measurements, waist-to-height ratio, and fat mass.
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Using a combination of electrophoresis (which sorts proteins according to their size and electrical properties) and mass spectrometry (which sorts fragments of those proteins according to their weight), she was able to do just that.
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The studies measured the participants' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of their height and weight, but it wasn't able to take into account their body fat composition, or how much of their overall body weight was made up of fat versus muscle.
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It is important not to cut carbohydrates significantly on days that you are exercising strenuously, as this will negatively affect your energy level and will probably result in loss of lean body mass (muscle, bone, and water) which can impair weight loss efforts long term.
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And yet (fact): Hands lack the anatomical mass required to support the weight of an adult human.
The FDA approved Qsymia only for obese people or for overweight people with a body mass index greater than 27 who also suffer from weight-related conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
By controlling for individual and environmental influences on weight, such as income and health, they then measure whether food-price changes affect body-mass index (BMI).
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).
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