Integrated Web Site to Accompany Discovering Nutrition, Second Edition

The National Institutes of Health released guidelines in 1998 that define obesity in adults as a BMI of greater than kg/m2. The BMI still has a limited ability to distinguish between muscle weight and excess fat weight. Densitometry is the measure of body density. In , body density is calculated using the above water weight, the submerged weight and, the quantity of water displaced during submersion. Done correctly, body composition estimates from skinfold thickness measurements correlate well with . This type of measurement is especially useful in tracking changes to subcutaneous fat distribution over time. Body fat distribution can be a risk factor for heart disease and diabetes. obesity is more common in and refers to excess fat being distributed around the hips and thighs. obesity is more common in and has fat distributed around the abdomen.