imberly is 27 years old. She is 5’8” and right now, weighs 145 lbs. Kimberly’s w
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imberly is 27 years old. She is 5’8” and right now, weighs 145 lbs. Kimberly’s weight has been fluctuating, since she was a teenager, between 125 and 150 lbs. She exercises several times a week and is always trying the newest “fad” diets.
1) What is Kimberly’s BMI?
2) How would you classify her weight based on her BMI?
3) Would you consider her weight to be healthful? 4)What are 2 other measurements that can be taken to assess her weight and health status? If Kimberly weighed 165 pounds but had a stable weight, would her health status likely be better or worse than it is now? Explain. 6) Kimberly would like to lose 10 pounds in a healthful way. 7) Does she need to be in a negative or positive energy balance to do this? 8) How much do you think she should lose each week to increase her likelihood of successful weight loss? 9) What calorie deficit should she be in each day to achieve this ? 10)What foods (due to specific nutrients) and beverages should she focus on to optimize her body’s energy metabolism? 11)What, safely and healthfully, can improve her BMR? 12)Bonus: Calculate your waist to hip ratio. What does this number mean for your health? Do you agree with this? Why or why not?
Explanation / Answer
1. Kimberly’s BMI :-
her BMI is 22. BMI means measure of Body mass index, it shows as we are accurate weight for the particular height calculation, it predicts under weight, normal , over weight indexing.
It is calculated as weight / height 2 ( Kg/ m2 ), the healthy range is 18.5 to 24.9, in between age of 18 to 65 years.
2. her weight is under normal range.
3. Yes, her weight is healthy range.
4. If she was 165lbs/pounds she was over weight BMI, waist circumference, waist to hip ratio are other methods to asses fat in body other than BMI
6. Yes, if she wishes decrease 10 pounds of her weight its normal by stable and regular exercises, eating of fibre containing foods, apricots, oats etc.. can loose un bounded belly fat.
7.Yes, negative energy is needed to loose weight, because the loosing weight changes metabolic rate drastically, induces hormonal imbalance too like tyroid so we need to have negative energy balance during dieting or weight loosing programme.
8.If she lose 10 pounds in one month we can consider as healthy weight lose.
9.If she deficit 500 calories, one pound of weight is loosed every week.
10. The foods which rich in fibre, more nutritive should be taken while weight lose, low carbohydrate diet, more claorific value foods are recommended.
11.BMR is essential to calculate metabolic rate, it decreases upon increasing age and attain constant after maturity, but over weight person have high BMR, women having more fat than men,
BMR is calculated as
BMR = 655 + (4.35 x weight in pounds) + 4.7 x height in inches - 4.7 x age in years.
kimberleys BMR is = 655 + ( 4.35 x 145 ) + 4.7 x 68 - (4.7 x 27) = 655 + 630.75 + 319.6 - 126.9
Kimberleys BMR is 823.45
12) Waist to hip ratio WHR is very important to asses the ehalth status, to decrease the risk the ratio calculation is very important. W/H
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