Fitness

Fitness

Related to the practice of regular exercise to maintain good physical condition and health.

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malabsorption

Fitness; Weight loss

Impaired intestinal absorption of nutrients, causing food to be poorly digested and absorbed. Often happens as a result of gastric bypass surgery.

malabsorptive procedure

Fitness; Weight loss

An operation, such as the biliopancreatic diversion, which causes weight loss by decreasing the number of calories your body absorbs from the food you eat. Different procedures ...

lean body mass

Fitness; Weight loss

The mass of the body minus the fat (storage lipid).

phenylalanine

Fitness; Weight loss

An essential amino acid. (The human body cannot make it so it is essential to the diet. ) Phenylalanine that is ingested is largely transformed (hydroxylated) to form the amino ...

perspiration

Fitness; Weight loss

1) The secretion of fluid by the sweat (sudoriferous) glands. These small, tubular glands are situated within the skin, as well as in the subcutaneous tissue under it. They ...