Vocabulary
What is the relative amounts of fat and fat-free mass in the body?
What is Body Composition?
How is body composition typically expressed?
What is percentage of fat in the body.
What percentage of obesity directly contributes to deaths in the United States?
What is 15-20%?
Obesity increases the risk of developing at least 26 what?
What is diseases?
What instrument is used to measure skin folds?
What is a skinfold caliper?
A weight above the recommended level for health.
What is Overweight?
Women classify as obese if they have a percentage of body fat of...
What is 35%
Where in the world are the obesity rates the highest?
What is the United States?
What is the leading cause of death in the United States?
What is cardiovascular disease?
3-4%
Fat stored around the internal organs.
What is Visceral fat?
Where is essential fat located?
What is nerves and cell membranes.
Where do men tend to store fat?
What is upper body around the abdomen?
A metabolic disorder charactersized by high blood glucose levels?
What is diabetes?
What measurement can be used to estimate the risk of disease associated with high body fat?
What is waist-to-hip ratio?
Pattern of fat distribution characterized by fat stored in the hips and thighs; more in common in women.
What is gynoid pattern?
Where is visceral fat located?
What is internal organs.
What slows down as we age?
What is our metabolism?
At what age does type 2 diabetes risk increase?
What is at 45?
A technique that involves weighing the individual both on land and in a take of water is known as
What is hydrostatic weighing?
A field test used to estimate body composition; representative samples of subcutaneous fat are measured using calipers to estimate the overall level of body fat.
What is skinfold test?
Where is subcutaneous fat located?
What is just below the skin?
Gradually adding fat over a period of time.
What is creeping obesity?
Obese women are more likely to experience abnormalities to what?
What is their menstrual cycle?
Technique used to assess body composition by estimating body volume based on air displaced when a person sits in a chamber.
What is air displacement?