How Your Body Fat?

To know someone is overweight or not usually know the weight. But apart frommeasuring the weight, to find out how fat your body can measure bone shape.

The key to knowing whether someone is overweight or not is on the femur. Part of thethigh bone is the femur were observed, namely the thick bone and serves to hold the load.

Ann Ross, an anthropologist from North Carolina State University and the researchersstudied 121 Gina Agostini framework of white people. The anthropologists found that people who are obese have a greater femur.

"The bone of the femur is almost like a buttress that makes something stronger," said Ann Ross, as quoted by LiveScience, Thursday (24/03/2011).

Ross reveals a lot of people have the impression that the bone was not alive. Thoughthe bone is the tissue that is alive and constantly changing. This change occurredbecause of pressure from the top.

Other research has shown that people who are overweight and obese have differentmovements when walking compared to normal people. This is because in order tooffset the additional weight it carries.

A study revealed that obese people will take steps wider when walking than people with normal weight. This difference can make the shape of the femur changed.

The study found in people who have excess weight and obesity also will have a widerfemur bone from side to side as compared with those who had normal weight.

In this study, researchers also take into account the person's age at death, sex,presence of certain diseases that could change the shape of bones, ethnic descent andthe cause of death. The results of this study have been published in the March issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences.