Kinesiology 2962A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anthropometry, Memory Stick, Abdominal Obesity
10 Nov 2018
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Deals with measurement of size, weight, and proportions of the human body. Body composition: refers to the relative amounts of the different components of the body. There are 2 human body components: fat free mass: internal organs, bone, muscle, water and connective tissue, fat mass: essential fat and non-essential fat. Why study body composition? it allows you to be able to monitor tness and overall health. Essential fat= in bone marrow, spinal cord, brain, muscle, internal organs. Non-essential fat/storage fat= in adipose tissue > insulates the body, energy substrate and padding. Bmi = body mass (kg) / body height (m2) Higher bmi= more likely to have greater proportion of body fat and have increased incidence of: Bmi is not a direct measure of body fat. Bmi is more accurate than body weight alone. Dexa (dual energy x-ray absorptiometry) > bone density. Abdominal obesity can be further broken up into:
