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.
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.
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.
Inside the cordon, you felt the weight of the huge mass of surrounding equipment: the trucks themselves, the police cars beyond the trucks, the TV sound trucks beyond the police cars.
AIDS. The likelihood that a mutant protein can slip through unnoticed is small: the spectrometer can tell apart proteins that differ by less than a tenth of a proton mass in weight.
Larger mass and heavier weight require more energy to accelerate, and more energy to decelerate.
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.
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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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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Unfortunately, the recent Journal of the American Medical Association publication analyzing life expectancy correlations to one imperfect calculation of relative weight (BMI, the body mass index) distracts readers all-too-eager to cling to its implications that being chubby is actually better.
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.
And yet (fact): Hands lack the anatomical mass required to support the weight of an adult human.
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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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.
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.
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.
Body Mass Index is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
My lean body mass index showed more fat than my weight suggested.
Jackson won't reach her goal weight of 164 pounds -- a healthy body mass index for her 5-foot-8 frame -- by her birthday in February.
Jain also gets his patients to use a body weight tracker called BMI by NutriSystem to track their body mass index, since depression is a mind-body disorder.
GPs will be advised to use the body mass index, where the person's weight in kilograms is divided by his height squared in metres, to get a reading.
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.
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.
The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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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).
Its clear that strength training using weight machines, free weights or resistance bands can help build and preserve muscle mass and strength.
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