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2014
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http://hdl.handle.net/2128/8111 in citations.
Height and Weight of Healthy Persons
Height and Weight of Healthy Persons
At present many people carry out their daily work, sitting for hours without physical exercise. Often they eat more and gain weight. Genetically we are hunters and collectors of berries, mushrooms and fruit, and we had a lot of hard work. In ancient times starvation periods occurred, and too much we...
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Personal Name(s): | Schult, Otto W. B. (Corresponding Author) |
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Contributing Institute: |
Experimentelle Hadrondynamik; IKP-2 |
Published in: | 2014 |
Imprint: |
Jülich
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag
2014
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Physical Description: |
27 p. |
Document Type: |
Report Book |
Research Program: |
ohne Topic |
Series Title: |
Berichte des Forschungszentrums Jülich
4380 |
Link: |
OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
At present many people carry out their daily work, sitting for hours without physical exercise. Often they eat more and gain weight. Genetically we are hunters and collectors of berries, mushrooms and fruit, and we had a lot of hard work. In ancient times starvation periods occurred, and too much weight had never been a problem. Do we determine our weight occasionally now?Our height changes only slowly while growing and ageing. How does the weight of a healthy individual depend on its body height? When observing people we realize: humans are quite different. Apart from the natural difference between males and females, people differ in body proportions. The body proportions of small children are very different from those of adults. But even persons with the same age and sex may have rather different body proportions. There are scrawny persons. Most humans are what we would call normal, and they have healthy weight. But too many weigh too much! They put additional load on essential parts of their body, challenge their health and cause immense health expenses.What would be ideal? We have a natural feeling for which proportions we find harmonic or even beautiful. They satisfy the golden section or the golden ratio, „den goldenen Schnitt“, which implies that the naval height Hn is the golden section of the body height H:H / Hn = Hn / (H – Hn) = R = 1.618034...We call a body, which agrees with the golden section, ideal. Normal persons never satisfy the golden section perfectly. How close they come to it, is given by the individual body proportions, and these determine the human weight as function of the body height H.[...] |