News tagged with body shape
Hotter homes produce smarter babies
(PhysOrg.com) -- A hotter home appears to produce babies with better cognitive abilities - but before you turn up the home heater to make your baby brainier, the research was conducted on the Australian lizard ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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'Love your body' to lose weight
Almost a quarter of men and women in England and over a third of adults in America are obese. Obesity increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease and can significantly shorten a person's life expectancy. New research ...
Jul 18, 2011 |
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World's first trial of new anorexia treatment
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of Western Sydney are trialling a new method of treatment for anorexia nervosa, which addresses the role of extreme exercise in perpetuating the dangerous and debilitating ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Media's focus on ideal body shape can boost women's body satisfaction -- for a while
When researchers had college-age women view magazines for five straight days that only included images of women with thin, idealized body types, something surprising happened: the readers' own body satisfaction improved.
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Frequency of fat talk associated with increased body dissatisfaction, regardless of waistline
College women who engage in "fat talk" (women speaking negatively about the size and shape of their bodies) face greater dissatisfaction with their bodies and are more likely to have internalized an ultra-thin body ideal ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Secondhand television exposure linked to eating disorders
For parents wanting to reduce the negative influence of TV on their children, the first step is normally to switch off the television set.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Catfish study reveals multiplicity of species
Peer into any stream in a South American rainforest and you may well see a small shoal of similar-looking miniature catfish. But don't be fooled into thinking that they are all the same species.
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Low blood levels of vitamin D linked to chubbier kids, faster weight gain
Kids who are deficient in vitamin D accumulated fat around the waist and gained weight more rapidly than kids who got enough vitamin D, a new University of Michigan study suggests.
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Study shows real partners are no match for ideal mate
Our ideal image of the perfect partner differs greatly from our real-life partner, according to new research from the University of Sheffield and the University of Montpellier in France. The research found that our actual ...
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Getting a tail up on conservation?
Lizards are an important indicator species for understanding the condition of specific ecosystems. Their body weight is a crucial index for evaluating species health, but lizards are seldom weighed, perhaps due in part to ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Most pet dogs are overweight, say researchers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Six out of ten pet dogs are overweight or obese, according to a study by veterinary researchers at the University of Glasgow.
Jul 30, 2010 |
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New research: What does your avatar say about you?
Old or young, beautiful or sinister - the choices are endless when designing an avatar or a virtual alter ego. In the end, do people choose one that is really different from themselves? Usually not, according to new Concordia ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Body beauty: what do we really want?
(PhysOrg.com) -- With skinny catwalk models and digitally altered photographs in women's magazines being blamed for creating problems with negative body images, Australian researchers are questioning traditional ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Redefining Geometric Skeletons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geometric skeletons are fundamental concepts in many areas of science and engineering.
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Most parents don't realize their 4 or 5 year-olds are overweight or obese
Half of the mothers who took part in a study thought that their obese four or five year-old was normal weight, as did 39 per cent of the fathers, according to the February issue of Acta Paediatrica.
Jan 28, 2010 |
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