An 'ambivalence towards authority' among South Africa civil servants is, moreover, a general apartheid legacy [ 42] that is compounded, within the health system, by " the accumulated weight of existing practices and procedures, together with embedded hierarchies that institutionalise a specific distribution of power and privilege" [ 10].
The desire for certainty is part of a perspective that gives little weight to the needs of practice.
The stringency of an obligation is thus a consequence not of its weight or practice features, but of the fact that it supports the required action by special normative means, insulating it from the general competition of reasons.
The NutriNet-Santé anthropometric questionnaires include questions dealing with self measurement of current height, weight, hip and waist circumferences, weight history, practice of restrictive diets (type and reason, history), body self-perception.
In those weight control practices in which a significant (P < 0.05) relationship was found with BMI, typically a shorter duration of weight control practice was related to higher BMI.
There is no literature to support this negligible number of athletes showing evidence of dehydration, instead, there is mounting literature identifying the trends of rapid weight cutting practice in MMA [12, 13, 39] and other combative sports [14].
We developed questionnaires, based on a survey in 2005, in which methods of weight management of 36 practices of dietitians in primary health care were evaluated, and which were representative for methods commonly used by dietitians.
Proper use of this cast iron weight requires strength, coordination and lots of practice as using this exercise involves multiple joints and many muscle groups working together [ 2, 3].
To increase our understanding of how GPs react to the development towards increased standardisation of practice and the weight put on cost effectiveness by national authorities, we would like to reproduce this study among British GPs.
The purpose of this study was to systematically map the barriers to raising the topic of weight in general practice by capturing the perspectives of GPs and primary care nurses.
