body fat percentage

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• Body fat percentage — A person s body mass percentage is the total weight of the person s fat divided by the person s weight and consists of essential body fat and storage body fat. Essential body fat is necessary to maintain life and reproductive functions. The… …   Wikipedia

• Body fat meter — A body fat meter is a widely available tool used to measure the percentage of fat in the human body. Different meters use various methods to determine the body fat to weight ratio.In contrast with clinical tools, one relatively inexpensive type… …   Wikipedia

• Fat tax — Fat tax, also known as Twinkie tax , junk food tax, and snack tax, is a tax on calorie dense, nutrient poor foods. The tax has been proposed as one means to address the obesity problem. The consumption of junk food is supposed to decline if it… …   Wikipedia

• Body composition — This article is about the body s contents of fat, bone, and muscle. For the chemical composition of the human body, see Composition of the human body. In physical fitness, body composition is used to describe the percentages of fat, bone and… …   Wikipedia

• Body mass index — The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a statistical measurement which compares a person s weight and height. Though it does not actually measure the percentage of body fat, it is a useful tool to estimate a healthy body weight based on …   Wikipedia

• Body shape — Human body shape has sophisticated details and purposes. Shape or figure is defined mainly by skeletal structure, muscles and fat. [ body shape is determined by the nature of body fat distribution [http://www.psichi.org/pubs/articles/article… …   Wikipedia

• Body water — In medicine, body water is all of the water content of the human body. A significant fraction of the human body is water. Lean muscle tissue contains about 75% water. Blood contains 95% water, body fat contains 14% water and bone has 22%… …   Wikipedia

• Female body shape — has a bearing on a wide range of human activities, and there are and have been widely different ideals of it in different cultures over history. The female figure is usually narrower at the waist than at the chest and hips, and usually has one of …   Wikipedia

• Brain to body mass ratio — (also known as the Encephalization Quotient or EQ) is a rough estimate of the possible intelligence of an organism.It is defined as the ratio of the actual brain mass to the expected brain mass of a typical animal that size, EQ=m(brain)/Em(brain) …   Wikipedia

• Fitzsimmons, Fat Freddie — ▪ American athlete byname of  Frederick Landis Fitzsimmons   born July 28, 1901, Mishawaka, Indiana, U.S. died November 18, 1979, Yucca Valley, California       professional right handed baseball pitcher for the National League who was famous for …   Universalium

• Classification of obesity — An obese male with a body mass index of 46 kg/m²: weight 146 kg (322 lb), height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse… …   Wikipedia