Body Fat Composition and Ideal Body Fat Percent

The composition of body fat weight vs.

The best way to tell whether your diet, fitness, weight or other programs that work for you to monitor changes in their body fat composition. Imagine if you weigh 200 pounds on Earth, a 35 percent fat. For a month and they would lose about 167 pounds due to lower gravity. However, your body will still be 35 percent fat. The point here is that the weight is not a problem. Fat is.

Body Fat Calculations and types of fat

Now you can get it a little dicey, because there is no way to know how many different types of fat in your body. Your total is composed of brown fat and white fat (both called adipose tissue), and even the fat cell membranes.

brown adipose tissue is the new kid on the block for fat loss. At one point it was thought to be present only in infants. Recent studies have shown its presence in adults. It occurs mainly in the upper chest and neck. The significance of this discovery is that the more brown fat you have, the more you are able to balance other kinds of fat. Brown adipose tissue metabolism that directs awful belly fat that most people want to lose.

can easily tell when you have an abnormal fat made from white adipose tissue, because it holds somewhere. usual places are the abdomen, thighs and buttocks, and upper arms.

Ideally, the best fat loss will therefore be white fat loss. Actually, better weight management will include getting your body to make more brown fat and less white fat. Until now, scientists have succeeded in getting the mice to do laboratory research. We still do not know if this will work in humans. Naturally, drug companies are looking for a new miracle drug that will do it for you. There is no such thing is available at this time.

body fat recommendations

Note that the measurement of total body fat may be misleading, although this is currently the best indicator of body fat composition. accuracy of the three main methods of measuring ranges.

is the most accurate immersion test, where your buoyancy in the water is used to calculate body fat percent. second most accurate method is through the impedance of the device. These are now available and bathroom scales that read body fat and as handheld devices that use the same principle. In my personal experience, my hand-held device measures impedance of about 3 percent more than does the method of sinking.

the least reliable method is the caliper. It varies tremendously due to the pinching force varies with the examiner.

Irrespective of the result you get, there area number of of body fat composition , whichis best for optimal health and weight ( fat)control. There is no magic number for everyone. Indeed, the numbers are always higher in women than in men, and they increase with age.

General agreement between nutrition researchers offer the following as a healthy ranges of body fat percent for men and women in different age groups:

of women

20-40 years, 21 up to 33 percent fat
41-60 years, 23 to 35 percent fat
61-79 years, 24-36 percent fat

Men's

20-40 years, 8 to 19 percent fat
41-60 years, 11 to 22 percent fat
61-79 years, 13 to 25 percent fat

These are the target ranges for good health. It is probably clear that up over these areas is the basis for excess weight (ie overfat) and obesity. May there be no limit to how high it can go. One of my clients, a woman in her 50-ies, measured at 48 percent body fat. Wow!

lower body fat percentage is not healthy

What May not be so obvious is that the numbers are below these health ranges are not necessarily healthy just because they are lower. Need body fat in the right amounts, the right kind, in the right places for optimal health and body image.