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	Human weight
		Weight in measuring human body weight in the medical sciences and in sports is a measurement of mass, expressed in units of mass such as kilograms or pounds.
		For female adults the average weight is 120 to 140 lb (54 to 64 kg).
		For female teenagers the average weight is 100 to 126 lb (45 to 57 kg).
	www.nutri.info /human_weight.htm (183 words)

	average human weight with child and birth
		Three total spotted, one alone under a clump of Rhizophora mangle prop roots and two mating...The male/female ratio of our catch was approximately 1/18 with the average male weight being 300-500g and the average female weight ranged from 1000-1100g.
		The breed is dispersed mainly in the southern and western mountain...sheep (Bayerische Waldschaf) A medium to large size sheep, with semicoarse to coarse white wool.
		The predicted performance difference is 7 pounds although it is not possible to estimate the actual birth weight average for these calves.
	www.laobel.com /averagehumanweight.htm (1584 words)

	Human weight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Weight, in the context of human body weight measurements in the medical sciences and in sports is a measurement of mass, and is thus expressed in units of mass, such as kilograms (kg) or pounds (lb).
		This is determined by dividing the weight of a person in kilograms by the square of the height in meters.
		The average weight for all ages, sex and races is rising at an increasing rate in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_weight (285 words)

	Human weight
		For female adults the average weight is 54 to 64 kg (120 to 140 lb).
		For female teenagers the average weight is 45 to 57 kg (100 to 126 lb).
		Note that textbooks in fields such as physics and engineering often use the term weight to mean the force exerted on an object due to gravity, and often express body weight in force units such as newtons and pounds force, this refers to mass multiplied by the gravity of the planet.
	www.mrsci.com /Obesity/Human_weight.php (261 words)

	In The Obese, Metabolic Adaptations After Weight Loss Lead To The Regaining Of The Shed Pounds
		Weight loss was targeted to achieve a 10-15 percent loss in body weight that would be reflective of target adjustments in human weight loss programs.
		To achieve this objective, weight loss was induced by limiting calories to approximately 60 percent of energy expenditure, with a daily monitoring and adjustment of food intake throughout the 14-day period to ensure a negative energy balance.
		While rats that are regaining weight may have a shift in appetite that would contribute to their high rate of weight regain, the drive to increase food intake remains the most critical factor in the predisposition to regain lost weight.
	www.the-aps.org /press/journal/04/14.htm (1585 words)

	Human nutrition in the developing world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The human body requires energy for all bodily functions, including work, the maintenance of body temperature and the continuous action of the heart and lungs In children energy is essential for growth Energy is also needed for breakdown, repair and building of tissues.
		In human beings, when the skin is exposed to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight, a sterol compound is activated to form vitamin D, which is then available to the body and which has exactly the same function as vitamin D taken in the diet.
		As vitamin D is produced in humans by the action of the sun on the skin, deficiency is not common in tropical countries, although synthesis of vitamin D may possibly be reduced in darkly pigmented skin.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/W0073e/w0073e04.htm (17034 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Religion (Soul Man)
		This loss of weight could not be due to evaporation of respiratory moisture and sweat, because that had already been determined to go on, in his case, at the rate of one sixtieth of an ounce per minute, whereas this loss was sudden and large, three-fourths of an ounce in a few seconds.
		MacDougall repeated his experiment with fifteen dogs and observed that "the results were uniformly negative, no loss of weight at death." This result seemingly corroborated MacDougall's hypothesis that the loss in weight recorded as humans expired was due to the soul's departure from the body, since (according to his religious doctrine) animals have no souls.
		The weight of the soul he has determined to be from one-half ounce to nearly an ounce and a quarter.
	www.snopes.com /religion/soulweight.asp (2226 words)

	Human weight - WebArticles.com
		Weight in measuring human body weight in the medical sciences and in sports is a measurement of mass, expressed in units of mass such as kilograms (kg) or pounds (lb).
		Assistants lift the weight, and then the weight trainer attempts to resist its downward progress.
		The isolation exercise first exhausts the muscle group, and then the compound exercise uses the muscle groups's supporting muscles to push it further than would otherwise be possible.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=221 (571 words)

	eMedicine - Estimation of Fetal Weight : Article by Gerard G Nahum, MD, FACOG, FACS
		Subclassifications in these weight groups are possible according to the incidence of neonatal morbidity and mortality in each group and the gestational age of the newborns (especially those with very low or extremely low birth weight).
		Weight gain during pregnancy is generally proportional to the caloric intake of a mother and, the greater the number of calories consumed, the more is available for incorporation into the developing tissues of the fetus.
		All comparisons with actual birth weight were calculated by adding to the predicted ultrasonographic birth-weight rate of 12.4 g/day (for females) or 13.0 g/day (for males) for the time elapsed between the date of ultrasonographic fetal biometric assessment and the actual date of delivery.
	www.emedicine.com /med/topic3281.htm (8069 words)

	Test America Weight Loss Clinic - Human Growth Hormone - HGH
		The Carbithane Weight Loss Protocol was developed by John D. Dorman, M.D. This unique protocol utilizes the balancing of neurotransmitters in the brain that control satiety and hunger with nutrients and supplements and a low (40%) carbohydrate diet.
		Losing weight in such cases becomes extremely difficult because, unknown to the person who has been painfully dieting, the brain is busily undermining these efforts by working to restore the original weight.
		Prescriptions for for weight control are not popular because one complaint is that as soon as the drug was discontinued, the patient gained back all the lost weight.
	www.genmedsys.com /weightloss.html (2990 words)

	Computerized Feedback Effective for Short-Term Weight Loss - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today
		Explain to interested patients that Internet-based weight loss programs may yield similar short-term results whether feedback is generated by a computer or a human counselor.
		Likewise, both feedback methods promoted clinically significant weight loss (at least 5% of initial body weight) with 52% of the human counseling group, 34% of the computerized counseling group and 27% of the control group.
		Feedback was either generated immediately by computer from preprogrammed responses tailored to information entered in the diary or generated by a human weight loss counselor the participants had never met.
	www.medpagetoday.com /PrimaryCare/WeightManagement/tb/3922 (661 words)

	OMR -- Over the counter weight loss medications
		In humans CLA has been shown to reduce fat mass and increase lean body mass, but does not have much effect on overall body weight nor on plasma lipids.
		Human studies up to 26 weeks seem to show that caffeine has an additive effect, but there are few studies showing that aspirin increases the effectiveness of ephedrine.
		But despite the protests, there is no credible evidence showing that HCA produces weight loss in humans, and a second controlled study published last year found no difference in appetite or weight loss in subjects given HCA or placebo.
	www.barbarahirsch.com /otc.htm (3550 words)

	Cremation Association of North America - CANA
		Body size (weight) and levels of body fat have considerable effects on the operation of your cremation equipment.
		The cremation unit must be COOL and be the FIRST cremation of the day or not less than 12 hours since the last cremation in the cremation unit.
		At the time to load, consider loading container/casketed human remains in reverse so that the bulk or mass is farthest away from the cremation burner.
	www.cremationassociation.org /html/article-weight.html (528 words)

	Using animal data to improve prediction of human decompression risk following air-saturation dives -- Lillo et al. 93 ...
		and a similar expression was used for pigs by using the average weight of 20.0 kg.
		A: dramatic shift to the left of the predictive curves as rat weight is increased in 10-g increments, demonstrating that, for heavier rats, a shallower range of depths is required to produce the same range of DCS incidence.
		The elevated risk of DCS with increasing weight within a species was confirmed in rats, although not in pigs in this study.
	jap.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/93/1/216 (5911 words)

	Human Milk Feedings and Infection Among Very Low Birth Weight Infants -- Hylander et al. 102 (3): 38 -- Pediatrics
		Schanler RJ, Hurst NM Human milk for the hospitalized preterm infant.
		Schanler RJ Suitability of human milk for the low birth weight infant.
		Narayanan I, Prakash K, Gujral VV The value of human milk in the prevention of infection in the high-risk low birth weight infant.
	pediatrics.aappublications.org /cgi/content/full/102/3/e38 (3147 words)

	Romantic Audience Project :: weight
		In conclusion I would mention that it is not necessarily Wordsworth’s purpose to lift the weight and heavy burden of mundane day-to-day human struggle (as depicted in his sister’s journal) in the hopes of a lighter more serene day.
		But instead, it should be noted that Wordsworth views the weight and painful struggles of human existence as profoundly interlocked with nature and natural occurrence, more formally seen both in The Thorn and The Ruined Cottage.
		As jperez stated, “Wordsworth views the weight and painful struggles of human existence as profoundly interlocked with nature and natural occurrence.” Wordsworth, moreover, appears to invent many of these weighty instances and characteristics within his various subject matter so that he can interweave them with his observations of nature.
	ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668 /comments/weight (764 words)

	Counting Calories / No Weight Gain Cookbooks
		We are told that if we take in more calories than we use, it follows that we will gain weight.
		I believe it's the calories in manufactured foods that are doing us harm, not the calories in natural foods in their natural state.
		By using foods in their natural state, I have lost a great deal of weight, and turned my health problems around profoundly and dramatically, for the better.
	www.noweightgaincookbooks.com /Benefits/Benefits-countcal.htm (1529 words)

	Genetic Defects and Obesity
		The relative long-term constancy of body weight, the difficulty in sustaining intentional weight loss, and the metabolic, endocrine, and behavioural alterations that accompany weight change, such as in anorexia nervosa, provide strong evidence that body fat is biologically regulated.
		The human body is enriched with genes that favours the storage of energy, and diminished energy expenditure.
		The potential implication of genetic factors in the development of human obesity is well demonstrated by the description of six monogenic forms of the pathological human obesity to date.
	www.weightlossadviser.com /genetic-obesity.htm (4101 words)

	The Avocado and Human Nutrition. I. Some Human Health Aspects of the Avocado
		Not only does fat have over twice as many calories per unit weight as does carbohydrate or protein, but also if excess calories are consumed, the body apparently burns about three times as many calories when storing calories from carbohydrate or protein as it burns when calories from fat are stored.
		Recent evidence, however, suggests that calories are not the whole story for body weight, with timing of both consumption and exercise as factors and with calories from fat also a possible added handicap.
		Very few people will have rapid weight loss as a result of increasing their consumption of avocado; however, the more slowly one loses weight, the less likely one is to regain it.
	www.avocadosource.com /WAC2/WAC2_p025.htm (5117 words)

	Study links level of leptin to human weight gain, loss \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		WASHINGTON - Leptin, a hormone that affects weight and appetite, apparently helps wire the brain in ways that might set an animal on a lifetime path to slenderness or obesity, two teams of U.S. researchers said Thursday.
		In one study, a team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University and at Yale University, found that leptin affects both the physical structure and the function of neural circuits in the brain.
		But leptin's effect was not so straightforward in humans, and it became clear that simply injecting obese people with it was not going to make them lose weight.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/16493 (437 words)

	Albuminar Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Albumin (Human) - RxList Monographs
		5% solution is a sterile aqueous solution for single dose intravenous administration containing 5 % human albumin (weight/volume).
		is prepared by a cold alcohol fractionation method from pooled human plasma obtained from venous blood.
		5 % solution is osmotically and isotonically equivalent to an equal volume of normal human plasma.
	www.rxlist.com /cgi/generic3/albumin.htm (157 words)

	weight loss
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		The dosages taken by athletes are usually in the range of 200-400 mcg/day (2 to 3 mcg per kg of bodyweight, for human with age more than 12 years old).
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	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/our_beautiful_bodies/82515 (761 words)

	Northern Balance and Scale-Human Weight Scales, Baby Scales, Veterinary Scales, Test Weights, Thermometers
		Regardless of your weight range, special needs or budget, NBS can supply you with the proper scale to meet your needs.
		With a 44 lb (20kg)capacity and 1/2 oz (10g) readability, a HOLD feature to store weights of active animals and babies, this unit performs well.
		This mechanical weight and height scale is the old reliable DOCTOR'S OFFICE scale we are all familiar with.
	www.northernbalance.com /nbs_main/health.htm (434 words)

	Medical Dictionary: Low birth weight infant human - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Low birth weight infant human : an infant weighing 5\-1/2 pounds or less at birth.
		Broader terms for Low birth weight infant human
		Other terms that may be related to Low birth weight infant human:
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/low_birth_weight_infant_human.htm (218 words)

	ScienceDaily: Communications News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Computer Model Could Aid Design Of Nanomaterials (March 8, 2007) -- Researchers from MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University have developed a new computer modeling approach to study how materials behave under stress at the atomic level,...
		Prescriptions For Health Advice Online (March 7, 2007) -- When searching for health advice online, consumers often reject Web sites with high quality medical information in favor of those with a human touch, according to new research funded by the Economic...
		Atom 'Noise' May Help Design Quantum Computers (March 3, 2007) -- Physicists at NIST have found that images of noise in clouds of ultracold atoms trapped by lasers reveal hidden structural patterns, including spacing between atoms and cloud...
	www.sciencedaily.com /directory/Computers/Human-Computer_Interaction (1262 words)

	Download Ideal Weight 1.1 - Ideal Weight is a human Ideal Weight calculation and statistics tool. - Softpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		By the program it is possible to do conclusions for regulation Weight of the man that directly influences on health.
		Knowing given out by the program it is possible to establish dependence Real weight from quantity consumed per day of calories, thus gives opportunity to adjust quantity consumption calories.
		Each human knowing the ideal weight And the real weight can count up on how many it is necessary to grow thin or to recover.
	www.softpedia.com /get/Science-CAD/Ideal-Weight.shtml (447 words)

	Weight Scales Human Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gesture, gestures, gesturing, human, item, items race, scales, stand, standing, theme, themes, thing, things, weighing, weight, weight scales.
		Lose weight, actually have no scales at all or if they have it, is are willing to see their weight before and after having done automatically with minimum human intervention.
		Access the article, 'tipping the social scales body weight in dating and marriage.' from human ecology, a publication in the field of news & 038.
	www.weightscalesonline.info /weight-scales-human.html (843 words)

	Current Newsletter -Weight Reduction Human Guinea Pigs Needed
		I was so surprised that Wysong made human food that I had to purchase it knowing how good your pet food is. It was the best peanut butter I have ever tasted.
		He receives no human food (except for apple slices and broccoli)...no meat or other foods.
		We saw your food (we kept him going with sub-cutaneous fluid injections, etc. until the food arrived) and within 2 days he improved, within a month he was "cured" and within 2 months required no more medication for the IBS.
	www.wysong.net /currentehl.shtml (1692 words)

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