Skinfold thickness. Skinfold thickness has traditionally been used to measure body fatness in athletes. The original validation studies in general populations were earned out using under-water weighing, or cadavers, as the ‘gold standard’ measure and there have been traditionally two main equations; that developed by Jackson and Pollock in 19813 using 3, 4 or 7 [...]

Socializing at shindigs kept Andrea Kennedy away from the buffet table and a lean 135 pounds for more than 14 years. Thin for most of her life, Andrea, a 51-year-old interior designer from North Bethesda, Maryland, started gaining weight in 1980 after rupturing a disk while moving into a new home. The injury caused so [...]