Chapter 4: weight loss & Body Composition

Question 1

What are 4 ways body composition is studdied?

Answer 1

Medical
Anthropological
Performance
Appearance

Question 2

what is body composition?

Answer 2

it tells us what our weight consists of and is a ratio between the fat and the fat-free body mass.
made up of 2 components: Fat-free mass and fat mass.

Fat mass: essential fat (normal functioning) and storage fat (protects the organs, non-essential)

Question 3

Body fat deposition patterns

Answer 3

Men tend to build up body fat around the waist, round apple shape - android

Women tend to build up body fat around the hips and upper thighs, pear shape, (gynoid)

Question 4

what is “ideal weight”

Answer 4

no such thing
sometimes, people create sources for an ideal weight by using height to calculate it.

Question 5

Assessing body composition: BMI

Answer 5

1. BMI (body weight index)
   kg/m
   does not measure body fat, but correlates with it
   not appropriate for older people or pregnant women
   not reliable
   if you have a high BMI, raises the risk of getting type 2 diabetes

Question 6

Assessing Body composition: Waist circumference (WC)

Answer 6

measuring fat around the waist
the higher WC, the higher BMI
risk of developping health problems if your WC is hight

Question 7

Waist/ Hip girth ratio

Answer 7

Circumference of hip and waist
- provides an index of relative fat distribution

Question 8

Skin folds

Answer 8

pinch test of skinfold caliper use
filled with lots of errors, usually testing requires lots of takes, then put into an average

Question 9

Hydrostatic weighing

Answer 9

a way to weigh yourself underwater

Question 10

X-ray absorptiometry

Answer 10

expensive, but it works