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T1  - The Effects of Intensive Weight Reduction on Body Composition and Serum Hormones in Female Fitness Competitors 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/174553 
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A1  - Hulmi, Juha; Isola, Ville; Suonpaa, Marianna; Jarvinen, Neea J.; Kokkonen, Marja; Wennerstrom, Annika; Nyman, Kai; Perola, Markus; Ahtiainen, Juha P.; Hakkinen, Keijo 
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Y1  - 2017 
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AB  - Worries about the potential negative consequences of popular fat loss regimens for aesthetic purposes in normal weight females have been surfacing in the media. However, longitudinal studies investigating these kinds of diets are lacking. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of a 4-month fat-loss diet in normal weight females competing in fitness-sport. In total 50 participants finished the study with 27 females (27.2 +/- 4.1 years) dieting for a competition and 23 (27... 
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KW  - fat loss; exercise; nutrition; fitness; body composition; sex hormones; thyroid hormones; BODYBUILDING CONTEST PREPARATION; INCREASED PROTEIN-INTAKE; IOC MEDICAL COMMISSION; RESEARCH WORKING GROUP; LEAN MASS GAIN; ANOREXIA-NERVOSA; ENERGY DEFICIT; METABOLIC ADAPTATION; DIETARY-PROTEIN; ADIPOSE-TISSUE; 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology; 3111 Biomedicine 
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