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The Scale Companion How to Find Your Ideal Weight
Author: Ronda Gates, Frank I. Katch, Victor L. Katch, Ronda Gates

There are people who want you to think that when it comes to weight and health, the number on the scale says it all. Don't believe them for a minute. The scale reveals only half the story. Although most people are wed to getting on the scale every day health and fitness professionals will tell you that it's not your total weight that's impo... more »rtant, it's how much of that weight is fat. Although these professionals have know this for years, it's just recently that the message has moved beyond the confines of sports medicine clinics and health clubs and into the consumer market. Quite simply, people with higher levels of body fat are at a higher risk for all the diseases of overfatness--including cardiac disease, stroke and cancer. For men, optimum levels are 15-20% of body weight as fat; for women 20-25%. When the exercise and food intake gets further out of balance those levels can increase another ten percent--that's when health risk is high enough to trouble the medical community. Nevertheless, if you tell someone you want to give them a "body fat test" you're likely to get a dirty look. That's why author, Ronda Gates, uses the humor and style that has propelled her to her role as a motivational health promotion speaker to convince readers of the importance of this assessment. "Research has shown that weight management is an extremely critical part of staying healthy," says Gates. "Most people understand that. But most people don't understand the importance of a body composition assessment in determining a realistic weight goal. It's the non-fat weight of your body that allows you to predict an easily attainable ideal body weight." Gates continues, "I created THE SCALE COMPANION to condense a vast amount of information into easy-to-understand language that encourages readers who want to know an accurate weight goal to get the assessment. Once they're convinced of it's value the book provides them with instructions for doing their own measurements then calculating an ideal and easy-to-attain weight. The information explains the data for people who have received assessments elsewhere. For those first-timers, THE SCALE COMPANION provides the most inexpensive alternative." THE SCALE COMPANION: How to Find Your Ideal Body Weight is packaged with a tape measure, step-by-step instructions for girth measurements and body composition tables from the well-known research of Frank Katch, Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts and Victor Katch, Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Their studies have shown the accuracy of girth assessment results to be within + 3% when compared to hydrostatic weighing, the gold standard for body composition assessment. Once lean mass (pounds of non fat) are computed, a simple calculation reveals an individual's realistic and easily accessible health weight. This educational booklet also provides an easy to read text that quickly makes the reader an expert at explaining the process to others. With THE SCALE COMPANION: How to Find Your Ideal Body Weight, fitness and health professionals can help clients understand: why scale weight alone is not enough to find ideal health body weight how to view the scale and body composition assessment as important parts of a healthy self-awareness equation (rather than as enemies) why ideal weight may be different-and more attainable-than they imagined how to focus on building lean body mass, rather than merely "losing weight" THE SCALE COMPANION: How to Find Your Ideal Body Weight, was written for consumers in an informative, non-intimidating style.

ISBN-13: 9781878319012
ISBN-10: 1878319019
Publication Date: 4/15/1998
Pages: 64
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Publisher: 4-Heart Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Health, Fitness & Dieting >> Diets & Weight Loss >> Diets >> Weight Loss
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