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It is generally agreed that obesity is a condition in which the fat stores of the body are too large. However, the limitations of this simple definition soon become apparent: a young woman of normal body build may wish to be thinner, so in her opinion her fat store is too large — is she therefore obese? In a sense she is, but with such a subjective definition of obesity it is not possible to write sensibly about the measurements of body composition which are required for the investigation of obesity.
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Garrow, J. (1990). Body Composition for the Investigation of Obesity. In: Yasumura, S., Harrison, J.E., McNeill, K.G., Woodhead, A.D., Dilmanian, F.A. (eds) In Vivo Body Composition Studies. Basic Life Sciences, vol 55. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1473-8_26
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