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  2. Body fat percentage - Wikipedia

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    In males, mean percentage body fat ranged from 23% at age 16–19 years to 31% at age 60–79 years. In females, mean percentage body fat ranged from 32% at age 8–11 years to 42% at age 60–79 years. But it is important to recognise that women need at least 9% more body fat than men to live a normal healthy life. [2]

  3. Is BMI or Body Fat More Important? - AOL

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    In this group, 26 percent of men and 38 percent of women had excess body fat. Despite having a healthy BMI, they had: Higher triglycerides (a type of fat found in your blood)

  4. Classification of obesity - Wikipedia

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    Body fat percentage is total body fat expressed as a percentage of total body weight. There is no generally accepted definition of obesity based on total body fat. Most researchers have used >25% in men, and >30% in women, as cut-points to define obesity, [ 41 ] but the use of these values have been disputed.

  5. Body mass index - Wikipedia

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    For men with a BMI of 25, about 20% have a body fat percentage below 20% and about 10% have body fat percentage above 30%. [47] Body composition for athletes is often better calculated using measures of body fat, as determined by such techniques as skinfold measurements or underwater weighing and the limitations of manual measurement have also ...

  6. How This 60-Year-Old Built Strength for Everest

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    The goal was to build muscle strength and reduce body fat, not simply to lose weight. ... I went from 184.3 pounds and 18.8 percent body fat down to 172.4 pounds and 10.25 percent body fat ...

  7. Obesity - Wikipedia

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    However, their mean body fat percentage, 14%, is well within what is considered a healthy range. [34] Similarly, Sumo wrestlers may be categorized by BMI as "severely obese" or "very severely obese" but many Sumo wrestlers are not categorized as obese when body fat percentage is used instead (having <25% body fat). [35]

  8. Android fat distribution - Wikipedia

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    A difference in body fat distribution was observed between men and women living in Denmark (this includes both android fat distribution and gynoid fat distribution), of those aged between 35 and 65 years, men showed greater body fat mass than women. Men showed a total body fat mass increase of 6.9 kg and women showed a total body fat mass ...

  9. 18 Percent Body Fat? Kim K. Says She's in the 'Athlete ... - AOL

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    After marveling at her healthy bones, the Selfish author found out her body fat levels. “So, a year ago, my body fat percentage was 25 percent and now it is 18 percent,” she explained in her ...