BPK 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Metlife, Body Fat Percentage, Life Insurance
24 Jun 2016
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Overweight if he exceeds this ideal, or criterion weight. Overfat if a person exceeds her recommended percentage of body fat by a certain margin. Possible to be overweight without being overfat: professional football players, weightlifters, body builders, or officer workers; look good in clothes, had too much body fat and not enough muscles. Best-known height- weight tables are those produced by the metropolitan life insurance company in the u. s. Life insurance companies are interested in assessing statistical risk so that the company can determine how much to charge for life insurance premiums. To fin you ideal weight from these tables, measure your height without shoes and add one inch. Number of problems with height-weight tables: they don"t consider difference in body composition, thus a person who is muscular but lean may be classified as overweight by the table. Another approach to ideal weight is the body mass index, which equals (body mass in kg)/ (height in meters^2)
