Weight and body composition mean ± SEM values are presented in Table 5. Weight was significantly reduced from HAD by the end of each phase, with no between-group differences.
Participants living off campus had favorable changes in their body composition by means of decreasing %fat and fat mass while increasing fat-free mass.
The big downside is that beyond body mass index and a bit of advice on heart rate and PWV, there is very little guidance on what the body composition readings mean.
Gastrointestinal tolerance, the changes in blood fatty acids content, in growth and body composition, assessed by means of an air displacement plethysmography system, are also evaluated throughout the study.
Other studies have therefore used refined adiposity measures of body composition assessed by means of bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIA) or dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA); the body composition measures most commonly assessed using these techniques were fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass [ 10, 13– 15].
The biggest problem is a lack of explanation of what the body composition measurements really mean.
The body composition was assessed by means of the bioimpedance analysis (BIA) (InBody 170, Biospace, Korea S) in all studied subjects.
Body composition was measured by means of a bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) technique using a Maltron body fat analyzer (Maltron BioScan 920) with an operating frequency of 50 kHz at 800 μA [ 19].
Body composition was evaluated by means of a single, whole-body, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan made using a QDR 4500 Hologic machine (DXA Hologic Inc., Waltham, MA, USA), and the results were used to derive FM, and fat-free mass (FFM).
Table 1 shows their mean body composition (by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) and isometric knee extension strength.
Multiple regression models were constructed to compare mean body composition measures of each cluster to the 'Healthy foods' cluster, controlled for possible confounding factors including age, race, clinical site, education, physical activity, smoking and total calorie intake.
