What's the difference between fatness and obesity?
Fatness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
(n.) Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
(n.) That which makes fat or fertile.
Example Sentences:
(1) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(2) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(3) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(4) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(5) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(6) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
(7) Protein composition was determined in mesenteric lymph chylomicrons from fat-fed rats.
(8) The relationship of weight history with current fat distribution was also explored.
(9) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
(10) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(11) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(12) Assuming 1 kg LBM to contain 52.1 mmol potassium, the mean LBM was 3028 g in the I-NSM and 2739 in the I-SM; mean fat mass was similar in both groups.
(13) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
(14) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
(15) With both approaches, carbohydrate and fat had little influence whereas egg albumin had a significant inhibitory effect on the absorption of nonheme iron.
(16) Computed Tomography was used to demonstrate the increased retro-orbital fat.
(17) The results obtained on fat cell membranes from abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue demonstrated the following.
(18) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
(19) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
(20) As with alloplastic orbital implant extrusions in enucleated sockets, autogeneous dermis fat grafts can be useful in managing extrusions in previously eviscerated sockets.
Obesity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(3) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(4) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.
(5) Basal and maximally insulin-stimulated rates of 3-O-methylglucose transport in adipocytes from obese and obese NIDDM subjects were reduced to 50% of the values in cells from normal subjects (P less than 0.05).
(6) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
(7) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
(8) The inner diameters increased with age in the same way in both obese and control persons, indicating the the former are not protected against osteoporosis in the form of endosteal resorption.
(9) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(10) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
(11) We conclude that aging alone has little or no effect on the responsiveness to insulin of glucose metabolism in fat cells and that the insulin resistance of adipocytes from obese older rats is due to fat cell hypertrophy, not aging.
(12) The relationships of birth weight and maternal diabetes to the development of obesity were examined at 5-19 yr of age in the offspring of Pima Indian women.
(13) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(14) A patient died after gastric surgery for morbid obesity.
(15) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
(16) These results emphasize the importance of plasma FFA levels as a correlate of glucose tolerance and suggest that the associations previously reported between obesity, regional body fat distribution, fat cell size and glucose tolerance are, at least partly, mediated by variations in plasma FFA levels.
(17) We conclude that both lean and obese former GDM women have insulin secretion defects.
(18) This study has been designed to evaluate whether duration and severity of obesity can influence left ventricular function response to exercise in obese subjects without other known cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes or hyperlipoproteinemia.
(19) The modifying effect of estrogen receptor status on the relation of obesity to node involvement was apparent in pre- and post-menopausal women.
(20) In addition, insulin tolerance tests were performed on 8 lean and 8 obese subjects before and after starvation.