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Keeping your body fat levels within a healthy range reduces the risks of all-cause mortality. As well, low levels of lean body mass, such as muscle and bone, increase your risks of all-cause mortality. Having excess body fat may put you at risk of developing heart disease, metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure, or type 2 diabetes. Nutrition and Body Composition The foods you consume can affect your body composition, including how much muscle, water, bone, and body fat you have. Body mass is synonymous with weight, so the theoretical "improving" of body composition is very subjective. If you're looking to "improve your body composition"—whatever that means for you—increasing muscle mass, decreasing fat mass, or weight loss or weight gain may be indicated. There are many ways that nutrition can influence body composition, but many times when individuals adjust their nutrition plans they may not always see results. Hormones, genetics, medical conditions, and many other factors play a role, so nutrition and exercise are only two of many factors to consider. If weight loss is your goal, research shows that Research varies, but consuming 25–30% of your calories from protein may If you are active, which you likely will be if you want to make body composition changes, more protein is needed to support your activity and recovery. Aim for a range of 1.2 to 2.0 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day, depending on your training, according to the Academy of Nutrition an...

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Improving your body composition means eliminating excess fat mass and increasing lean mass by building muscle, which helps improve metabolic health parameters like blood sugar, insulin resistance, and blood pressure. Sustainably decreasing caloric intake is the best way to reduce fat mass, and resistance training is likely the best form of exercise for building muscle mass. You may have started a new diet and exercise program and feel you are making progress. But when you step on the scale, nothing has changed. Does that mean your efforts “aren’t working?” Not necessarily. Or, maybe your doctor tells you that your body mass index (BMI) is high. Do you know what that means, and is it necessarily bad news? It depends. The scale and BMI are rudimentary tools for gauging your overall body composition, meaning they don’t tell you enough to determine if you are at a healthy weight. Here’s an example. A professional athlete may be six feet tall (183 cm), weigh 225 pounds (102 kg), and be in fantastic physical condition with a 32-inch waist (81 cm) and bulging muscles. A busy doctor may be six feet tall and weigh 225 pounds with a 39-inch waist (99 cm) and a bulging midsection. They have the same weight and the same BMI, but very different health assessments. What’s different? The two men have different amounts of muscle tissue and fat mass. The athlete has a healthy body composition. The doctor perhaps does not. Knowing your body composition gives you a better picture of your ove...

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Your Body Composition Shapes Your Health Humans are 99.5 percent the same, at least Too much emphasis is put on body weight in relation to health, when in reality health and lifespan are linked more closely to body composition. Does the number on the scale matter? Yes, but the composition of that body weight is most important to overall health. In very simple terms, your body’s two major components are fat mass and lean mass (muscles, bones, organs, and water). The distribution of these two types of body mass mean so much to your health. Understanding how your body composition impacts you and learning how to optimize it will help you forget all about the number on the scale. Defining Body Composition There are several ways to describe the composition of the human body. For example, body composition can be expressed in terms of chemicals: • Water • Proteins • Fats • Carbohydrates (like glucose) • Genetic material (DNA) • Vitamins and minerals • Gases (like oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen) Body composition can also be evaluated as tissues or other types of material. This includes muscle, fat, bones and teeth, nerve tissue, body fluids, connective tissue, and air in the lungs. When the concern is health and fitness, body composition typically describes the percentages of water, fat, bone, and muscle. These are the body components over which you have the most control and can make the greatest impact on your daily health. Body Composition vs. Other Body Measurements A quic...

• Magnus Borga , , • Janne West , , • Jimmy D Bell • Nicholas C Harvey , • Thobias Romu , , • Steven B Heymsfield • Olof Dahlqvist Leinhard , , • 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden • 2 Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden • 3 Advanced MR Analytics AB, Linköping, Sweden • 4 Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden • 5 Research Centre for Optimal Health, University of Westminster, London, UK • 6 MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK • 7 NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK • 8 Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA • Correspondence to Professor Magnus Borga, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping 581 83, Sweden; magnus.borgaliu.se Abstract This paper gives a brief overview of common non-invasive techniques for body composition analysis and a more in-depth review of a body composition assessment method based on fat-referenced quantitative MRI. Earlier published studies of this method are summarized, and a previously unpublished validation study, based on 4753 subjects from the UK Biobank imaging cohort, comparing the quantitative MRI method with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is presented. For whole-body measurements of ad...