Revista Brasileira de Obesidade, Nutrição e Emagrecimento

394-399

Authors: Mariana Corrêa Hiller de Mesquita

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is considered worldwide the leading cause of death. The accumulation of fat in the abdomen has been described as the type of obesity that offers the greatest risk to the health of individuals (Pitanga and Lessa, 2005) to be a visceral fat mass, the most serious to increase risk of cardiovascular disease (Martins and Marine, 2003). Objective: Make sure the group of volunteers who joined the treatment (physical training, low-calorie diet and medication use orlistat) decreased more fully the risks of cardiovascular disease than the group that did not commit to the steps. The calculation for risk assessment was the WHR. Materials and Methods: The participants were eight people, two men and six women, three people followed the treatment in all its stages and five were not followed any of the three corresponding steps (exercise, diet or medication). The subjects were observed for 12 weeks. Results: The risk for cardiovascular disease decreased in five of eight volunteers. Discussion: There was one major difference from the waist circumference (WC) and hip circumference (HC) in the initial and final and initial and final of WHR in participants who adhered completely to treatment than those who did not commit the same way with the stages of weight loss program. Conclusion: There has to be more effective to adhere to treatment altogether when an urgent need to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Key words: Cardiovascular disease, Waist, Hip ratio, Treatment, Abdominal obesity.

408-417

Authors: Fernando da Silva dos Santos

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the changes in weight, height, BMI, skinfold, fat mass and lean mass before and after a personalized program of physically active women. Methods: The research is caracterized as pre-experimental with delineation pre and post test. The study population corresponds to N=400 women participant of musculation and seven women were select. For the analysis of weight and height we used a scale of filizola to measure the height we used a stadiometer Sanny for analysis of BMI cutoff points was used by WHO (1997) skinfolds the skinfold cescorf brand. Results: In the analysis of the time seem a very homogeneous group of women with an average height of 1,63 ± 0,06 with a maximum height of 1.70 cm and minimum height of 1.50 cm as in assessing changes in anthropometric between as to 3 rd mesocycle(April, May, June and July)is observed wich changes monthly trend showed a decrease not statistically significant but in general analysis of the first assessment(April)for the 4 th assessment (July) shows that the program personal trainer was effective in improving body composition as demonstrated statistically significant changes in all parameters (weight, BMI, skinfolds and fat mass). Conclusion: We conclude that the periodized training to clients of trainer proved to be beneficial for them which caused his speech favorable anthropometric changes. Key words: Body composition, Periodization, Training, Musculation.

427-434

Authors: Fabio Figueiredo

The objective of this study was to demonstrate the anthropometric profile of individuals who participated in a physical activity program (hiking), oriented and supervised in a town of Santa Catarina. This research is descriptive. Fifty-eight individuals, both male and female, between 51 and 87 years old were selected. In the statistics analysis was used: the descriptive analysis of the data, the "t" Student test for independent and paired samples, the x2 = chi - independence square: Partition: l x c and the Spearman linear correlation; the level of significance adopted was p < 0.05. Analyzing the anthropometric values, it was observed that male individuals had a tendency to reduce their weight, the BMI, hips circumference and WHR. In the hip girth and abdominal girth variables, the reduction was statistically significant. In female individuals a fall tendency in waist and hip girth was obtained; the abdominal girth had a statistically significant reduction, and body weight, BMI and WHR presented a rise tendency. The data demonstrate that the oriented and supervised physical activity program (hiking), was effective in the body composition maintenance, keeping stable the development levels of risk factors which predict metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. Key words: Anthropometric profile, BMI, WHR, Hiking.