Body Composition Assessment Exam
2025 Questions and Answers
Reasons to Asses Body Compostion - ....ANSWER ...--Provides a starting point to
base current and future decisions about weight loss and weight gain
-Provides realistic goals about how to best achieve an "ideal" balance between the
body's fat and nonfat compartments
-Reason to not assess: Provide something for individuals to obsess about....similar to
body weight
--Special concern related to those with eating disorders.
Reasons to Assess Body Composition (Cont.) - ....ANSWER ...--Monitors changes
in the body's fat and fat-free components during exercise regimens and rehabilitation
programs (Definitely used for research purposes)
-Allows the allied health practitioner to interact with the individuals they deal with to
provide quality information related to nutrition, weight control, exercise training, and
rehabilitation.
Weight-for-Height Tables - ....ANSWER ...--Serve as statistical landmarks based
on the average ranges of body mass related to stature in which men and women aged 25-
29 years have the lowest mortality rate
-Do not provide reliable information about the relative composition of the human body
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, -Have limited (to no) value as as standard to evaluate physique.
BMI - ....ANSWER ...--Derived from body mass related to stature
-Used to evaluate the "normalcy" of body size
-As BMI increases, so does risk for cardiovascular complications (including
hypertension and stroke), type 2 diabetes, and renal disease.
-Allows population data to be collected at regular intervals to estimate the prevalence of
overfatness/obesity
--Pro: Very easy...height and weight
--Con: Not a measure of body composition!
-BMI of 30 is the typical classification of obesity used today
Body Compositions Definitions-Vague! - ....ANSWER ...--Medical literature:
--The term overweight refers to an overfat condition , despite the absence of
accompanying body fat measures
--Obesity refers to individuals at the extreme overfat continuum.
-The overweight condition simply refers to a body weight that exceeds some average for
stature, and perhaps age, usually by some standard deviation unit or percentage.
Cont. - ....ANSWER ...--When body fat measures are available, one can more
accurately plave an individual's body fat level on a continuum from low to high
-Overfatness refers to a condition where body fat exceeds an age-and/or gender
appropriate average.
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2025 Questions and Answers
Reasons to Asses Body Compostion - ....ANSWER ...--Provides a starting point to
base current and future decisions about weight loss and weight gain
-Provides realistic goals about how to best achieve an "ideal" balance between the
body's fat and nonfat compartments
-Reason to not assess: Provide something for individuals to obsess about....similar to
body weight
--Special concern related to those with eating disorders.
Reasons to Assess Body Composition (Cont.) - ....ANSWER ...--Monitors changes
in the body's fat and fat-free components during exercise regimens and rehabilitation
programs (Definitely used for research purposes)
-Allows the allied health practitioner to interact with the individuals they deal with to
provide quality information related to nutrition, weight control, exercise training, and
rehabilitation.
Weight-for-Height Tables - ....ANSWER ...--Serve as statistical landmarks based
on the average ranges of body mass related to stature in which men and women aged 25-
29 years have the lowest mortality rate
-Do not provide reliable information about the relative composition of the human body
…FOR STUDENTS ONLY…©️2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED… 1
, -Have limited (to no) value as as standard to evaluate physique.
BMI - ....ANSWER ...--Derived from body mass related to stature
-Used to evaluate the "normalcy" of body size
-As BMI increases, so does risk for cardiovascular complications (including
hypertension and stroke), type 2 diabetes, and renal disease.
-Allows population data to be collected at regular intervals to estimate the prevalence of
overfatness/obesity
--Pro: Very easy...height and weight
--Con: Not a measure of body composition!
-BMI of 30 is the typical classification of obesity used today
Body Compositions Definitions-Vague! - ....ANSWER ...--Medical literature:
--The term overweight refers to an overfat condition , despite the absence of
accompanying body fat measures
--Obesity refers to individuals at the extreme overfat continuum.
-The overweight condition simply refers to a body weight that exceeds some average for
stature, and perhaps age, usually by some standard deviation unit or percentage.
Cont. - ....ANSWER ...--When body fat measures are available, one can more
accurately plave an individual's body fat level on a continuum from low to high
-Overfatness refers to a condition where body fat exceeds an age-and/or gender
appropriate average.
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