Suggests that cultural norms and female sex-role stereotypes and attitudes provide a context
for understanding women's preoccupation with thinness and their pursuit of beauty. In this …

HUMAN BODY CONTAINS four constituents.... These are the things that make up its
constitution and cause its pains and health. Health is primarily that state in which these …

One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011 A
necessary cultural and historical discussion on the stigma of fatness To be fat hasn't always …

Somatotyping is a method of description and assessment of the body on three shape and
composition scales: endomorphy (relative fatness), mesomorphy (relative musculoskeletal …

Height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) were assessed in a sample of 1974 monozygotic
and 2097 dizygotic male twin pairs. Concordance rates for different degrees of overweight …

Ten male and 10 female rats from each of seven strains were fed a grain ration for 10 or 20
weeks from weaning. Body weight and body fat of these rats were compared with those of 20 …

This volume provides a thought-provoking, interdisciplinary perspective on the empirical and
analytic study of body composition and the techniques used for measuring body …

HE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF OBESITY as a medical problem has received increasing
attention in recent years. To be sure, clinicians have noted since Hippocrates that obese …

Recalled body weight and self-reported current weight were validated in a longitudinal study
population by comparing recalls at 50 y to actual measures taken at ages 18, 30, 40, and 50 …

As it turns out," simple"(alimentary) obesity is anything but simple or uniform in etiology and
symptomatology other than accumulation of excess fat. The heart of the present volume is …