Calculating Body Fat Levels
20th August 2014
How much fat are you carrying? Find out if you have a healthy body fat percentage with this calculator. This tool provides: body fat percentage for women, body fat percentage for men, and recommended ideal body fat precentage based on your activity levels.
If you want to know what works for calculating body fat percentage and what doesn’t, then you want to read this article.
Alcohol – second only to fat! Did you know alcohol has many more kilojoules than other types of foods? On this list, alcohol has the second highest energy content per gram – second only to fat!
Most people are familiar with the term “body fat,” usually associating it with obesity, heart disease, cholesterol levels and general unhealthiness. Despite negative implications when too much fat is carried on your body, some fat is required by the body for proper functioning, metabolic purposes and general health.
In biology, adipose tissue, body fat, or simply fat is a loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes. In addition to adipocytes, adipose tissue contains the stromal vascular fraction (SVF) of cells including preadipocytes, fibroblasts, vascular endothelial cells and a variety of immune cells such as adipose tissue macrophages.
The Body Fat Percentage Calculator uses the U.S. Navy fitness formula to calculate an estimation of body fat.
In books and articles on fat loss it is common to see arbitrary recommendations for daily calorie intake or deficit, such as 1,200 calories per day for women and 1,500 calories per day for men, or a deficit of 500 to 1000 calories per day to lose 1 to 2 pounds of fat …
How to Measure Body Composition. Now that you know what body composition is, let’s talk about measuring/calculating it. The easiest way to go about measuring your body composition is to first measure your body fat percentage.
The body fat percentage (BFP) of a human or other living being is the total mass of fat divided by total body mass, times 100; body fat includes essential body fat and storage body fat.
This free body fat calculator estimates body fat percentage based on the U.S. Navy Method as well as the BMI method. It displays a number of results including the fat loss required to reach ideal body fat percentage.
