Body mass index

Hamstrings Sufficiency: My left hip’s range of motion during flexion, with a flexed knee, was 116 degrees. However, with knee extended, my hip’s range of motion was only 113 degrees (range of motion was smaller). This means that my hamstring in my left leg is passively insufficient. In order for it to have been passively sufficient, my hip’s range of motion with knee extended would have needed to be 116 degrees as well. In the same way, my right hamstring is passively insufficient. With knee…

it isn’t what keeps our bodies healthy. Being lazy at a “healthy” weight causes skinny fat. Skinny fat is a real term, not only is it a common term, it is deadly term! A skinny fat person may look fit and healthy while wearing clothes, but seeing them at the beach is a different story. Skinny fat occurs when there is more fat than muscle, this is what also causes cellulite. Women are more prone to this then men because women naturally have more fat than men. Body mass indexes set people in a…

Throughout the review Deurenberg, Deurenberg-Yap and Guricci states the use of anthropometric measurements such as skinfold thickness, waist circumference or bioelectrical impedance measurements are suitable for assessing body composition. Throughout the review it was identified that Asian populations have a higher BF% at a lower BMI measure than Caucasians. Highlighting the flaw with utilising BMI in measuring obesity especially with various ethnicities. Deurenberg, Deurenberg-Yap and Guricci…

The picture provided is a picture of a graph. The graph depicts weight in pounds and weight in kilograms. Another thing that it depicts is height in feet and inches and height in centimeters. It explains what your healthy weight should be for your height. It shows you what your healthy weight should be by a shaded line that goes across the graph. It also shows what the unhealthy weights are for your height. The unhealthy weights do not have the shading that the healthy weight does. There is not…

My main goal is simply to gain strength. Muscle mass and strength is very important for everyday life. I would also like to improve my body mass index (BMI) through gaining muscle mass which will in turn. I want to focus on both my upper body and lower body. Not only will this improve my health and wellness but it would also improve my appearance. I feel that a strength training program is a bigger necessity…

Disturbances in Viso-spatial representations of body size have been noted in healthy adult populations not experiencing body dissatisfaction. Funetes, Longo, & Haggard (2013) examined healthy adults body perception using a body image task. Participants were shown a head on a computer screen and asked to indicate where their body parts were relative to the head these created images were then compared to participant’s actual body size. The adults overestimated their shoulder width to height ratio…

Body mass index, or BMI, is a calculation based on the ratio of a person’s height and a person’s weight ("Defining Adult Overweight and Obesity.") The equation to find this is BMI equals a person’s weight (in kilograms) divided by a person’s height squared. A healthy BMI for adults is around 18.5 and 24.9. Overweight adults typically have a body mass index between 25 and 29.9. Obesity is a BMI that measures thirty or higher. Obesity is and has been a growing problem in children and adults alike…

BMI AND AGE. Body Mass Index is a measuring that index that brings weight and height together to establish a common relationship under a common unit, Kg/m2. It is amazing how age relates to the BMI of an individual, to be more specific, for children and teens. The age difference in children causes a very big difference in the determining whether a child is obese, overweight, healthy weight or underweight. BMI IN CHILDREN AND TEENS. This category is made up of 5yrs old children to18yrs old…

Moreover, these ideals are represented in mass media as vehicles of popular culture for a number of reasons. First, there is a long history of using female beauty to sell products to women, as well as men. Additionally, whether right or wrong, mass media consistently reinforces the assumed linkages between a woman’s appearance and their worth. Advertisers often strive to communicate a “look,”…

dollars to have a plastic surgery or even multiple surgeries to look like their idol. How is it we have let society control us this much for these teen girls and younger women to actually pay to have a different face? Society is telling us what kind of body image and appearance to have. You read about how these stars and modes are either praised for how they look or absolutely destroyed in the media. Depending on how the media wants to portray them they are either talked…