Word: fatted
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Step off the scales, America. You've got a new worry: body fat. Today fitness fanatics across the country are discovering what athletes and their trainers have long known: when it comes to fitness, what counts is not how much you weigh, but how much of you is fat. The FBI and the Secret Service as well as the Army and Navy routinely measure body fat in fitness evaluations. So do some local police and fire departments. At one health club in New York City, says Hair Stylist Kevin Mancuso, "instead of everyone competing to have the biggest build...
Some body fat is essential, of course. The yellowish globules, layered under the skin and packed around organs, cushion the body against injury, insulate it from cold and supply fuel to meet energy needs. Too much fat, however, increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, among other afflictions. Establishing ideal body-fat percentages is difficult, since height, age, body frame and exercise are all factors. Generally, scientists agree that the normal range for men is 12% to 23% and for women...
...Fat can be measured in several ways. The most accurate and expensive method ($40 to $100 a test) is hydrostatic weighing, also known as the water- buoyancy test, in which a person sits on a special scale and is dunked into a vat of water. Because fat is lighter than water, a person weighs less underwater. The land and submerged weights are used to calculate body fat. Another method, called electrical-impedance testing, is based on the fact that fat content affects how well the body conducts electricity. Electrodes are attached to hands and feet, and a small current...
...This spring Futrex, in Gaithersburg, Md., plans to introduce a hand-held computerized analyzer. Borrowing technology developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the nutritional content of meat and grain, the device beams near infrared light on the arm. As the light passes through the flesh, fat absorbs specific wavelengths; light emitted through the skin is then picked up by a detector. The computer translates the information into percent body fat. Cost of the device: around...
While applauding the growing emphasis on fat counts, physiologists caution ! that it is not the end-all and be-all. "You can have a good body-fat percentage and still be unfit," warns Dr. David Heber of the UCLA School of Medicine. Observes Exercise Physiologist Paul Davis of the Human Performance Center in Falls Church, Va.: "It's one-third of the fitness equation. The rest is muscular strength and flexibility and the aerobic capacity of the heart and lungs...