IAEA will use stable isotope technique to assess body composition to tackle childhood obesity. The IAEA initiative will use the deuterium dilution technique in a sample of school children from the 10 countries to describe the relationship between BMI and body composition. The deuterium dilution technique is a state-of-the-art methodology to assess body composition and thus provides a tool to evaluate the effects of altered diet and physical activity on adiposity.
A person drinks a weighed amount of water, that is labeled with deuterium, a stable isotope of hydrogen. Read more.