Study on skinfold thickness and body density, body fat percentage and beside anthropometry of pre-school children

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to declare for Japanese preschool children s growth and was to benefit prevention of life-styled diseases. Subjects were healthy and free living preschool children males: , females: aged to years old. Measurements are four Skinfold Thickness and Circumference, Height, Weight, Sitting-Height and Under-Legs. As, there was no predicting formula of Body Density and Body Fat Percentage from Skinfold Thickness for Japanese preschool children. So, we adapted the two equations for Body Density and the four equations for Body Fat Percentage from the precedence literature on preschool children. Survey was performed on January, Febrary,. Results and Discussion were as follows. Results by Two-way ANOVA, four Skinfold Thickness, Circumference, Height, Weight, Sitting-Height and Under-Legs were not recognized the differences by sex, but increased with ages. The sum of four Skinfold Thickness for preschool children was females higher than males, and occasion of females, we recognized that the sum of four Skinfold Thickness and Body Fat Percentage increased from about beginning at years