Body Fat Percentage

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<< 19-24% is ideal for women...www.phys.com has many calculators to figure

this

stuff out. >>

Thanks for the info. I'm currently at 34% so I have quite a ways to go yet!

LOL!

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In a message dated 4/9/00 5:25:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

KathleenSLP@... writes:

<< www.phys.com has many calculators to figure this

stuff out.

>>

Thanks for the tip, those were great calculators.

-Jenn (who has an average body fat of 28.4 - still more to go to get to 24!)

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> In a message dated 4/9/00 5:25:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> KathleenSLP@... writes:

>

> << www.phys.com has many calculators to figure this

> stuff out.

> >>

> Thanks for the tip, those were great calculators.

> -Jenn (who has an average body fat of 28.4 - still more to go to

get

to 24!)

Thanks for the site! I got some fun news when I used the fat

percentage calculator--I cant believe it--I was 18.2%! I had no idea.

I LOVE taebo!!!!

cyndy

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I WANNNA measure my wrist and waist!!!!!!!!!! At 6 inches, my wrist

is one of the smallest bone parts on my body! LOL Forget those da**

hips! Having a boy wrecked those forever! I widened out big time

with that pregnancy.

39 PERCENT. YIKES that is soooo unhealthy. I do have a question

though - here I have been keeping my measurements and I have my waist

as being where my ribs are and the hips where right below my navel.

On that measurement thing, they said your waist was level with you

belly button so where the heck is your hips? Is it right under that.

I have such a short waisted body that it all seems to run together.

And what is your waist part with the ribs?

le

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Someone probably already answered this but..I always measure my waist right at my belly button and my hips about 6 inches lower. Is that right?

Who isnt really sure either but that is where I have done it!

Re: Body Fat Percentage

I WANNNA measure my wrist and waist!!!!!!!!!! At 6 inches, my wrist is one of the smallest bone parts on my body! LOL Forget those da** hips! Having a boy wrecked those forever! I widened out big time with that pregnancy. 39 PERCENT. YIKES that is soooo unhealthy. I do have a question though - here I have been keeping my measurements and I have my waist as being where my ribs are and the hips where right below my navel. On that measurement thing, they said your waist was level with you belly button so where the heck is your hips? Is it right under that. I have such a short waisted body that it all seems to run together. And what is your waist part with the ribs?le ------------------------------------------------------------------------LOW RATE, NO WAIT!Get a NextCard Visa, in 30 seconds! Get rates as low as 2.9% Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR and no hidden fees. Learn more at:1/937/1/_/21226/_/955333751/------------------------------------------------------------------------As Deb has said: "Fitness is a journey and it begins with the first step."Visit our new vault site http://taeboon.isportsdot.com/

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In a message dated 04/09/2000 10:30:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

ravin@... writes:

<< On that measurement thing, they said your waist was level with you

belly button so where the heck is your hips? >>

I do my hips so it is the widest point where the top of my legs and whole

butt get included like it was measured years ago by a trainer at a fancy gym

I do my waist where it looks indented at the higher end of the navel.

Barb

who also pulls tighly on the tape cuz that is how the trainer did it

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Hi folks:

BF% is an interesting number, and I would like to get some idea what

mine is, without spending a fortune to find out.

My impression is that, generally speaking, people in the CR community

seem to think that people with a BMI around 20 are likely to have a

BF% of about 10%.

But when my BMI was 21 I had a hand-held impedence measurement taken

of my body fat and it came out at 23.7%. And now I see a paper (PMID

2043597) - Deurenberg, Weststrate and Seidell - which has formulae

for converting BMI to BF%. If their formulae are correct, this

indicates that for the average adult male aged 70 a BMI of 20 would

be associated with a BF 24%.

These numbers are dramatically different from what, it seems to me,

has been the accepted wisdom here. But I seem to recall Warren once

posting here that the 40% restricted mice that lived the absolute

longest were those that had managed to preserve the most body fat.

So, there may be a silver lining to this post!

Any input?

Rodney.

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I don't know why people are living longer, but I can tell you, we now have 5 centi's in a 23,000 pop. 100 yo Feb 19. That's 2 added this year.

More than 25,154 died in U.S. 2008, 100 yo or older, and the number is increasing by +7.5 % annually.

The oldest born in 1868. LOLA J BROWN, NE.

There was a Lola Brown in the 1930 census, , NE.

MY BF I measured for a while, and it was always 27%, by an impedance meter. I think maybe they're not reliable.

Regards

[ ] Body Fat Percentage

Hi folks:BF% is an interesting number, and I would like to get some idea what mine is, without spending a fortune to find out.My impression is that, generally speaking, people in the CR community seem to think that people with a BMI around 20 are likely to have a BF% of about 10%.But when my BMI was 21 I had a hand-held impedence measurement taken of my body fat and it came out at 23.7%. And now I see a paper (PMID 2043597) - Deurenberg, Weststrate and Seidell - which has formulae for converting BMI to BF%. If their formulae are correct, this indicates that for the average adult male aged 70 a BMI of 20 would be associated with a BF 24%.These numbers are dramatically different from what, it seems to me, has been the accepted wisdom here. But I seem to recall Warren once posting here that the 40% restricted mice that lived the absolute longest were those that had managed to preserve the most body fat. So, there may be a silver lining to this post!Any input?Rodney.