Human Body Composition: Approaches and ApplicationsJosef Brožek Human Body Composition: Approaches and Applications focuses on approaches to the description of human physique; clarification of the role of factors determining and modifying body composition; and assessment of biological and medical significance of individual differences in body composition. The selection first discusses advances and developments in the methods for the study of body composition and chemical analysis of the body. Discussions focus on direct and roentgenographic studies of bone mineralization; caliper and roentgenogrammetric values of the thickness of subcutaneous adipose tissue; and soft tissue roentgenography. The text also looks at determination of specific gravity of live sheep and its correlation with fat percentage and interpretation of whole body potassium measurements. The manuscript evaluates research on body composition and its relevance for human biology, including sex, growth, and aging, physical activity, loss and gain of body weight, and body composition in animals. The book also elaborates on sex difference in body composition, physical activity and body composition, hydrometry of growth and aging, and body composition and appraisal of nutriture. The selection is a reliable reference for readers interested in the composition of the human body. |
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adipose tissue adult Amer analysis of body animal anthropometric atherosclerosis average BEHNKE body cell mass body compartments body composition body density body weight bone mineral boys Brožek calcium calf cent changes in body chemical chloride Clin clinical components correlation creatinine decrease densitometric determined deuterium dilution disease Döbeln estimation extracellular fluid extracellular water fat content fat factor females Garn growth human biology human body humerus increase individual Keys and Brožek kwashiorkor lean body mass limb Ljunggren m-equiv m-equiv./kg males McMURREY measurements methods Moore muscle normal nutritional obesity obesity tissue oedema PARízková percentage Physiol physiological physique protein quantitative radiographic reference relation relative research on body roentgenographic Sciences 110 sex differences skeleton skinfold skinfold thickness somatotype specific gravity study of body subcutaneous fat Tanner techniques thickness tion total body fat total body water total exchangeable potassium values volume Widdowson width York Acad