Underwater weighing is considered the most reliable method of measuring fat and lean body tissue in a clinical setting. ... The preferable method of determining residual lung volume is the nitrogen washout procedure development, which is basically a modification of the closed-circuit, oxygen dilution method in which nitrogen is washed out of the lungs during a specified period of oxygen consumption. ... The variability of the volume component of the density value is a major problem with hydrostatic weighing. ... Fat and fat-free mass is terms used frequently that refer to the classic two...

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Method: A systematic search for relevant literatures was done on these databases: Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials, University of Sunderland Library Discover, Science Direct, CINAHL, PubMed, PCYCLIT, Google Scholar, EMBASE, British Nursing Index (BNI) using the Patient, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome (P.I.C.O). ... Although these results were in varying degree of effectiveness, this is because of the study setting and intervention method. ... Diabetes Mellitus w...

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(site) All things considered, simply the dehydration component of bulimia is extraordinarily detrimental. ... In the bulimic sub type where over exercising is the method of compensating for the excess calories from a binge is, the individual is in fact just putting themselves at a greater risk for injury and stress fractures related to their sport and therefore harming their performance(site). ...

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"Does this dress make me look fat?"... "I'm trying that Atkins diet"... "I have to lose five pounds by next week." These are just a few excerpts from the infatuation with looking thin which has had a grasp over the United States since the gift of sight. Young, thin images of models and actresses co...

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Few psychoanalytic concepts have been used as widely as the concept of instinct for explaining abnormal development. Under this orientation, obesity and other eating disorders are conceived of as resulting from disturbances during the oral phase. Yet the concept of instinct has been widely debated. Freud himself proposed many theoretical formulations and remained critical of all his efforts to formulate a fixed theory of instinct. A definite progression can be recognized in his concept of the instinctual drives, represented in the id, from the reflex arc scheme of a self-contained closed syst...

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