The Evaluation of Leanness-Fatness in Man: Norms and Interrelationships

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Abstract
The importance of an accurate means of estimating fat-to-lean ratios in subjects of nutritional investigations is emphasized. Estimation of proportions of fat in the human body in the past in terms of deviation from some weight standard introduced inaccuracies. Norms of relative fatness were derived from several criteria, including body wt., specific gravity and thickness of skinfolds at certain designated points. Equations were presented for the calculation of specific gravity and of total body fat from the various criteria of fatness, taken singly, or in combination.
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