Talk:Body composition

Article is misnamed
This article, as written, is misnamed. I expected to find the elemental composision (percent carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, iron, etc.) and molecular composition (percent water, lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, etc.) 67.172.182.35 05:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * fixed, link at top now directs to the right page Morecromulent (talk) 01:49, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Addition of Pictures Unrelated to this Article
Can someone, possibly Emptybone, please explain why a picture of a torso is added to this article? (Lean body.JPG) The physique is unimpressive (is not a "lean muscled human body"), and does not show anything directly related to body composition (ie: being measured with fat calipers, in a tank for bioelectrical impedance analysis etc.). I fail to see how either of the two pictures recently added improve the article in any way. --Yankees76 (talk) 22:14, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Fat percentages given
Some examples given about "athletes" and their respectives fat percentages are misleading; while it is true that linemen are "sportives", their body composition compare in no way to receivers, and in the same way sumo-wrestlers are athletes too. However, since the definition of a sport include marathon and soccer as well as crocket and clay-pigeon shooting, I propose using the following definition "Person participating in high-level "stadium sports" like track and field" (and from the original greek definition of an athlete as being a participant in a track and field event, a person that could excel in multiple disciplines). As such an athlete body fat percentage would be closer to %5-15 depending on discipline, but still possessing required physical attributes to compete in various other sports.

air displacement plethysmography
Rather than redirect here there should be an article describing this technique OR have a more detailed description on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.154.90 (User ) 20:18, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

The article should not be merged with the body fat topic as this is more general. The main reason I write is that the article is incomplete. What are the various percentages of body composition: Fat, Organs, Muscle, Bones. This is missing along with any discussion of it even though it would appear to be the main topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.49.21.39 (User ) 04:50, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

The picture given in this article looks like the start of a really weird porn. Just sayin'. 184.60.135.81 (talk)

Health category
"This article is about fat, bone, water and muscle content of the human body." not about health. Rathfelder (talk) 22:56, 1 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I moved Rathfelder's comment into its own section. For clarification on what Rathfelder means, see this section on my talk page. Flyer22 (talk) 23:12, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Article is appropriately named
While some readers might well expect that "body composition" refers to the chemical composition of the body, in exercise physiology labs "body composition" refers to the quantification of the fat and lean components of the human body.

However, in discussing the methods used to measure body composition (fat & lean body mass) the article did not address the most common method used, "underwater weighing". I edited the article extensively to inform about this method. Fatdunker (talk) 20:42, 8 September 2015 (UTC)