Contribution of breast volume and weight to body fat distribution in females
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Vol. 53 (1), 93-100
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330530113
Abstract
Breast volume and body composition were measured in 45 adult females to determine the contribution of breast weight and breast volume to total body fat. Plaster casts were filled with sand of known density to obtain breast volume. Breast weight was computed as breast volume times its density. The correlation between total breast volume and percent body fat was r = .40. Breast weight (X = 484 grams) accounted for 3.5 percent of the total weight of body fat, and at most, 12 percent of the estimated quantities of sex-specific fat. A theoretical model is proposed for the distribution of body fat in the female which subdivides total body fat into three components: reserve storage fat, essential fat, and expendable storage fat.Keywords
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