Foods and Nutrition 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Body Mass Index, Adipose Tissue, Body Composition

• School: Western University
• Department: Foods and Nutrition
• Course: Foods and Nutrition 1021
• Professor: Noelle Martin

Document Summary

Chapter 9 energy balance and healthy body weight. Die first during a siege or famine. Disadvantaged during times of surgery or illnesses that limit their intakes or increase their outputs. Society places enormous value on thinness for women. Women who are fat less sought after for romance, less often hired. Men of all ages, women past menopause, smokers, alcoholics carry weight centrally, Pear profile - fat around hips & thighs. Weight-for-height tables easy to use, inexpensive, not accurate. Bmi weight for height in people >20 y. ; Waist circumference visceral fatness in proportion to body fatness; indicator of health risk; men >102 cm (40 in); women >88 cm (35 in) Body mass index (bmi): bmi =(weight in kg)/(height in m2) Most valuable for evaluating degrees of obesity. Less useful for evaluating non-obese people"s body fatness. 1)failure to indicate how much of the weight is fat. 2)failure to indicate where the fat is located. Athletes highly developed muscles increase values.