BPK 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Body Fat Percentage, Caucasian Race, Celery

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Biomedical Physio & Kines
• Course: BPK 140
• Professor: Stephen Brown

Document Summary

Chapter 8 body weight and weight management. 8. 1 overview: body weight and weight control major health concerns today in growing middle and upper classes of developing. 1 countries: complex health concern because both medical and social issues are involved, difficult to separate facts regarding to obesity and weight control, correct information vs. misinformation. Females looked good in clothes and maintained their body weight through dieting but had too much body fat and not enough muscle. *more accurate ways of determining body density or body composition* 8. 3. 4 skinfold thickness: thickness of pinches of skin and fat lying under the skin can be measured quite reliably and objectively with. 8. 3. 7 dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (dxa: dxa aims two x-ray beams of different energies at the patient or subject"s body, primarily used to measure bone density, can also be used t measure body fat content.