Body Fat Percentage
Haille Worrell
September 23 2013
KIN 125
Professor De La Cruz
Body Fat Percentage
Body fat is very important to your body because it maintains life and reproductive organs. Excessive body fat or too little body fat is unhealthy. It can cause diseases that can be life-threatening and even genetic. Your body fat percentage should be maintained at a healthy range because it is necessary for normal body functioning and prevents any type of breakdown in the organs. The key to this is exercise and determining which type of fat, that is stored in your body, to watch closely.
There are two categories of body fat- storage fat and essential fat. Essential fat is very necessary for healthy functioning. It is stored in tiny amounts in your bone marrow, body organs- lungs, heart, liver, kidney, spleen- muscles and central nervous system. The healthy essential fat range for women is 10-15% and for men 2-5%. Women’s essential fat is higher, because biologically it needs to be. They are thicker in the pelvis, hips, thighs and breasts. This is essential for the child-bearing process. Storage fat is what many say is the “expendable” fat. This is the fat that increases when you gain weight and it is the weight you try to lose when you want to lose weight. This type of fat builds up under your skin in different areas of the body and in your muscles. It is also the type that protects your internal organs from any injury. Storage fat for women and men is just about on the same scale. Too much or too little storage fat is unhealthy.
A healthy body fat percentage depends on your gender and age. Women have a body fat percentage of 10% more than men for any chance of having kids and having enough nutrients to feed the unborn child. For females from 20-30 years old, the healthy body fat percentage is 21-33%. The unhealthy fat percentage is less than 21%, which is under what it should be and 33-39%, which is overweight. What is categorized as obese is more than 39%. My body
September 23 2013
KIN 125
Professor De La Cruz
Body Fat Percentage
Body fat is very important to your body because it maintains life and reproductive organs. Excessive body fat or too little body fat is unhealthy. It can cause diseases that can be life-threatening and even genetic. Your body fat percentage should be maintained at a healthy range because it is necessary for normal body functioning and prevents any type of breakdown in the organs. The key to this is exercise and determining which type of fat, that is stored in your body, to watch closely.
There are two categories of body fat- storage fat and essential fat. Essential fat is very necessary for healthy functioning. It is stored in tiny amounts in your bone marrow, body organs- lungs, heart, liver, kidney, spleen- muscles and central nervous system. The healthy essential fat range for women is 10-15% and for men 2-5%. Women’s essential fat is higher, because biologically it needs to be. They are thicker in the pelvis, hips, thighs and breasts. This is essential for the child-bearing process. Storage fat is what many say is the “expendable” fat. This is the fat that increases when you gain weight and it is the weight you try to lose when you want to lose weight. This type of fat builds up under your skin in different areas of the body and in your muscles. It is also the type that protects your internal organs from any injury. Storage fat for women and men is just about on the same scale. Too much or too little storage fat is unhealthy.
A healthy body fat percentage depends on your gender and age. Women have a body fat percentage of 10% more than men for any chance of having kids and having enough nutrients to feed the unborn child. For females from 20-30 years old, the healthy body fat percentage is 21-33%. The unhealthy fat percentage is less than 21%, which is under what it should be and 33-39%, which is overweight. What is categorized as obese is more than 39%. My body