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1. What is IBW? What are the Hamwi equations?2. What is percent ideal body weight? What are the percent of ideal body weight ranges for underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese? 3. Jane is a 65 year old female. She is 5’4” and 150 lbs. Calculate her ideal body weight using the Hamwi equation. What is her percent ideal weight? What category does she fall into? (1 in. = 2.54 cm, 1 kg = 2.2 lbs.)4. Jack is a 24 year old male. He is 5’6” and 150 lbs. Calculate his ideal body weight using the Hamwi equation. What is his percent ideal weight? What category does he fall into? (1 in. = 2.54 cm, 1 kg = 2.2 lbs.)5. What is BMI? How is BMI different than IBW? 6. What are the underweight, normal, overweight, and obese BMI ranges? 7. Jane is a 65 year old female. She is 5’4” and 150 lbs. Calculate her BMI. What category does she fall into? (1 in. = 2.54 cm, 1 kg = 2.2 lbs.)8. Jack is a 24 year old male. He is 5’6” and 150 lbs. Calculate his BMI. What category does he fall into? (1 in. = 2.54 cm, 1 kg = 2.2 lbs.)7. What are some ways to measure body composition? 8. What is the “acceptable” range of body fat for females? What is the “acceptable” range of body fat for males? 9. What is abdominal adiposity? What is gluteofemoral adiposity? Which type of fat distribution is more dangerous for health? 10. What is visceral fat? What is intra-abdominal fat? What is subcutaneous fat? Which of these types of fat is more dangerous. 11. Why is waist circumference sometimes used instead or body weight or BMI to determine if someone’s body fat is putting them at risk for chronic disease? 12. What are the high risk waist circumferences for males and females? 13. What are some of the pros and cons for using BMI to determine if someone’s weight is putting them at risk for chronic disease? ................
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