Assessing Body Composition
One of the easiest and most common techniques used to determine whether someone is overweight or obese; computed as the ratio of the body weight divided by height
What is body mass index (BMI)?
Body fat that is necessary for physiological functioning
What is essential fat?
Metabolic disorder characterized by high blood glucose levels that is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, nerve dysfunction, and eye damage
What is Diabetes?
Method of determining body composition that involves weighing an individual on land and in a tank of water
What is hydrostatic weighing?
Excess fat reserves stored in the body’s adipose tissue
What is storage fat?
The leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women
What is cardiovascular disease?
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?
Tissue where fat is stored in the body
What is adipose tissue?
Type 2 diabetes is often referred to as
Ratio of the waist and hip circumferences used to determine the risk for disease associated with the android pattern of obesity
What is waist-to-hip ratio?
Fat stored around the internal organs
What is visceral fat?
In this type of diabetes, the body can produce insulin, but there is a reduced ability of insulin to transport glucose from the blood to the cells
What is type 2 diabetes?
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?
Fat stored just beneath the skin
What is subcutaneous fat?
What is sleep apnea?