"maintenance of body" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to any activity that keeps the human body healthy, such as exercising, eating well, and getting enough sleep. For example, "Good health requires regular maintenance of body and mind."
These hormones are vital to the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism and exert wide-ranging effects on the growth and maintenance of body tissues.
The tubercles function in maintenance of body contact during spawning, in defense of nests and territories, and possibly in the stimulation of females during breeding.
The functions of the thalamus and the hypothalamus include the maintenance of body temperature, and it is probable that they also regulate such phenomena as water balance, blood-sugar concentration, fat metabolism, and the rhythmic alternation of sleep and wakefulness.
Such mechanisms could have contributed to maintenance of body condition scores at optimal levels in this study.
During the cool season, supplementation with concentrates should be planned based on estimated energy intake from forages to achieve optimum milk production and ensure maintenance of body condition.
Maintenance of body weight and increased speed of lipid clearance from the blood by the end of each trial in the FS group support this statement.
Intrusive images of appearance play an important role in the maintenance of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and are often linked to negative autobiographical experiences.
Furthermore, only the patches on the sodic sites and termite mounds produced foliage of sufficient quality to support reproduction and maintenance of body condition.
Circulation and respiration are centrally important, but so are maintenance of body temperature, hormonal regulation, and various other functions as well as, in humans and other higher animals, consciousness.
This is true even of a brain function as somatically integrating as the maintenance of body temperature: the "thermostat" may be in the brain, but the "furnace" is the energy metabolism diffused throughout the body.
Administration of Ac-PLP-BPI-NH2-2 an an s.c. solution produced clinical scores and maintenance of body weight comparable to i.v. solution, but with reduced overall survival, presumably due to anaphylaxis.
