Sentences with phrase «require low body weight»

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Babies who are born at less than 36 weeks or who have a birth weight less than 2.5 kg (5.5 lbs) require extra vitamins during their first year of life because the stores of vitamins in their bodies are low.

Prematurity - related problems that might impact breastfeeding include an underdeveloped suck reflex; increased sleepiness; low birth weight / small size; a higher risk of jaundice, hypoglycemia, and difficulty maintaining body temperature; and anything else that requires separation of babies from their mother or supplementation.

As lead author Laura Rupprecht said, «The findings are important in the context of potential product standards requiring very low nicotine levels in cigarettes, as they indicate that low nicotine levels may still reduce body weight, possibly motivating continued use and maintaining exposure to harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke.»

EXERCISE ROUTINE Monday: PT session Tuesday: 20 mins high - intensity cardio (HIC), lower body weights, 20 mins low - intensity cardio (LIC) Wednesday: 20 mins HIC, upper body weights, abs, 20 mins LIC Thursday: 20 mins HIC, lower body weights, 20 mins LIC Friday: 20 mins HIC, upper body weights, abs, 20 mins LIC Saturday: 20 mins HIC, lower body weights, 20 mins LIC Sunday: Stretching session or 6 — 8 km road run Rest day as required

Another move featuring two dumbbells, this one requires the power of your lower body to drive the weights overhead.

This requires drawing the abdomen in to keep the lower back long and to support the weight of the legs with the arms and upper body.

All of these situations require lower - body strength and coordination, which is often neglected in most weight training regimens.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

Therefore, we do require a certain amount of methionine to prevent deficiency (a minimum of 15 mg / kg body weight is thought to be a reasonable lower limit).