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4 Body Composition in the Military Services: Standards and Methods
4 Body Composition in the Military Services: Standards and Methods
Pages 57-70
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The directive required that fat measurement techniques must have a correlation coefficient of 0.75 or better with percent BF from underwater weighing. This coefficient has 57
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DOD percent BF goals were set at 20 percent BF for men and 26 percent BF for women. BODY COMPOSITION STANDARDS If body composition was presumed to affect military performance, military appearance, and general health and well-being, the basis for setting standards ought to lie with one of these three relationships.
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The raters were instructed to rate the "military appearance" of the soldier according to their own personal standards, and instructed to evaluate how the individual looked in uniform, not how the uniform looked. The personnel who were rated also had their percent BF determined from underwater weighing.
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Army Personnel Appearance Study Regression Predictor Coefficient Constant R R2 SEET Males: Percent fat -0.047 4.277 0.53 0.28 0.523 Females: Percent fat -0.054 4.721 0.46 0.22 0.598 * R = multiple correlation coefficient.
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Armed with this definition, and the information that obesity could be considered a health risk, the following study determined whether or not these weight-for-height tables had any reasonable expression in percent BF. Using the Navy anthropometry data set, the regression between weight and height and percent BF was determined.
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This approach allows remedial action on BF reduction to begin prior to exceeding the limits for admin-istrative action. The finding that the NIH critical weights represent a relatively constant percent BF for men and women is intriguing, especially when one considers that those weights derive from the empirically determined Metropolitan Life Insurance Tables (Metropolitan LIfe Insurance Company, 1984~.
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H Heaney and coworkers (Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, unpublished manuscript)
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For the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, the criterion measurement for equation development was either body density from underwater weighing or percent BF using the Siri (1961)
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If they do not exceed the U.S. Air Force BF standards (20 percent BF for men less than 30 years of age, 26 percent BF for men older than 30 years; 28 percent BF for women less than 30 years, 34 percent BF for women older than 30 years)
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Second, the military services have used standard techniques to derive equations to estimate relative BE from anthropometric measures: body circumferences, height, and weight. When applied to a general military population sample, these equations have validities and standard errors of measurement similar to other published, generalized anthropometric equations and would appear to be reasonable, useful estimators of body composition.
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84-29. Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, Calif.
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1974. Estimation of relative body fat and lean body weight in a United States Marine Corps population.
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