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One of the greatest challenges for the apparel industry is to produce garments that fit customers properly. Anthropometry, apparel sizing and design addresses the need for improved characterization of our populations in order to tailor garments according to size, weight and shape of consumers. This book reviews techniques in anthropometry, sizing system developments and their applications to clothing design.Part one considers a range of anthropometric methods. The text discusses the range of sizing systems, including data mining techniques, useful for bridging the gap between ergonomis

Anthropometry -- Great Britain. --- Ethnology. --- Race. --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Arts & Crafts --- Anthropometry --- Clothing and dress --- Clothing trade --- Standards. --- Sizes --- Standards --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Fashion industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Fashion --- Undressing --- Skeletal remains --- Physical anthropology --- Body size

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Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Abdominal Obesity focuses on the important roles that exercise, dietary changes, and foods play in promoting as well as reducing visceral fat. Nutritionists, dieticians, and healthcare providers seeking to address the abdominal obesity epidemic will use this comprehensive resource as a tool in their long-term goal of preventing chronic diseases, especially heart, vascular, and diabetic diseases. Experts from a broad range of disciplines are involved in dealing with the consequences of excessive abdominal fat: cardiology, diabetes r

Abdomen. --- Family medicine. --- Obesity -- Molecular aspects. --- Obesity --- Reducing diets --- Nutrition Therapy --- Physiological Phenomena --- Overweight --- Phenomena and Processes --- Overnutrition --- Therapeutics --- Nutrition Disorders --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Body Weight --- Body Size --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Body Weights and Measures --- Diseases --- Body Constitution --- Physical Examination --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Diagnosis --- Obesity, Abdominal --- Diet Therapy --- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Metabolic & Nutritional Diseases --- Nutritional aspects --- Reducing diets. --- Treatment. --- Prevention. --- Dieting for weight loss --- Diet --- Weight loss --- Dieters --- Diet therapy

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Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a face—the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the world. In Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Using ethnography,participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography, Talley explores four sites in which a range of faces are “repaired:” face transplantation, facial feminization surgery, the reality show Extreme Makeover, and the international charitable organization Operation Smile. Throughout, she considers how efforts focused on repair sometimes intensify the stigma associated with disfigurement. Drawing upon experiences volunteering at a camp for children with severe burns, Talley also considers alternative interventions and everyday practices that both challenge stigma and help those seen as disfigured negotiate outsider status.Talley delves into the promise and limits of facial surgery, continually examining how we might understand appearance as a facet of privilege and a dimension of inequality. Ultimately, she argues that facial work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive techniques aimed at the human face, but rather, that appearance interventions are increasingly treated as lifesaving work. Especially at a time when aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when discrimination based on appearance is rampant, this important book challenges us to think critically about how we see the human face.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- MEDICAL / Dermatology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Surgery, Plastic --- Physical-appearance-based bias. --- Face --- Disfigured persons. --- Aesthetics --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Human face --- Head --- Pathognomy --- Physiognomy --- Appearance-based bias --- Appearance-based discrimination --- Appearance bias --- Appearance discrimination --- Body-size bias --- Look-ism --- Lookism --- Looks-ism --- Looksism --- Physical appearance discrimination --- Size bias, Body --- Size discrimination --- Sizeism --- Sizism --- Discrimination --- Persons --- Social aspects. --- Social asepcts. --- Psychology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics