Physical Performance, Skinfold Measurements, Activity Expenditures, and Food Consumption of College Women

Some Aspects of Obesity in Children

“…Similarly, Stefanik, Heald and Mayer, 5 studying the food intake and amount and degree of participation of 14 obese adolescent boys and 14 paired nonobese controls at a summer camp, found both a significantly smaller intake and a smaller degree of participation in exercise among the obese boys. Stefanik, Bullen, Heald and Mayer 11 found that increased exercise made a group of adolescent girls lose weight as well as subcutaneous fat at scapular and abdominal (but not arm) sites. Bullen, Reed and Mayer, 12 using a new technic developed for time-motion studies in industry and involving the taking of a number of photographs which are then used as a basis for estimating caloric expenditures based on the particular pose represented, have been able to demonstrate unequivocally POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE that the average obese adolescent girl expends far less energy during scheduled exercise periods than does her nonobese counterpart.…”

Effects of a short-term exercise program on caloric consumption.

“…Three studies of exercising men report decreases in caloric intake (Holloszy, Skinner, Toro, & Cureton, 1964;Leon, Conrad, Hunninghake, & Serfass, 1979;Watt, Wiley, & Fletcher, 1976), but one study found concomitant increases in caloric intake (Demsey, 1964). Pertinent studies of exercising females found significant decreases (Johnson, Mastropaolo, & Wharton, 1972), increases (Stephanik, Bullen, Heald, & Mayer, 1961), or no change in postexercise caloric intake (Katch, Michael, & Jones, 1969). Furthermore, specific examinations of the relationship between exercise intensity and duration and caloric intake revealed that although increases in exercise intensity were related to increases in caloric intake (Epstein, Wing, & Thompson, 1978), no compensatory increase in caloric intake was related to increased energy expenditure and exercise duration (Woo, Garrow, &Pi-Sunyer, 1982a, 1982b.…”