Many people suffering today from excess weight, grew up in families where fullness was considered hereditary. Although in the process of communicating with nutritionists, it turned out that the reason for everything is the wrong lifestyle, to which all family members are accustomed.
Yes, most often to blame are rich borscht, in which there are spoons, fatty meatballs, as well as joint evenings at the TV under “something tasty”.
Often, what we think of as an irresistible genetic feature turns out to be just the result of overeating. Is it bad? Of course not, that means we can fix it!
Myth or reality: does it happen?
Pictured are two twin sisters. Those. parents, heredity and predisposition they have in common! They love to confuse genetics and wrong eating habits instilled in the family! “Everyone in my family is full” is correct: everyone eats dumplings with mayonnaise at night.
IMPORTANT POINT: yes, differences in skeletal structures do exist, it is foolish to deny it. There are girls with wide hips even with a low percentage of fat, and there are owners of a boyish figure and an almost complete absence of curves.
People with narrower bones tend to have smaller hands and feet, thin fingers if a woman, then narrow shoulders, narrow chest. Those who have wider bones in their structure, respectively, and wider feet and wrists, and, most importantly within the framework of this article, large quantity muscle mass.
The wider the bone, the more muscle that are attached to it. But if you believe that muscle is much heavier than fat, then we advise you to watch this video. It perfectly shows that the weight of animal fat and muscle is about the same!
There are other data on this topic. Muscle weighs more than fat, but not at times, due to different density:
muscle density - 1.3 gr. on see;
fat density - about 0.9 gr. on cm.
This means that fat weighs less than muscle by about one and a half times. There is a difference, but not as significant as many people think.
Therefore, with all the parameters taken into account, complaints about the very “wide bone”, which adds from 5 to 15 kg. to the total body weight of a person, to "fat power" and genetic predisposition to increased weight gain, in fact, are not quite comparable with real situation of things.
And the amount of fat is absolutely not related to broad bone . Let your hips be a little wider than others, but it will be two big differences: whether they will be with 10 kg of fat on them or with 2. Yes, a wide bone can give external massiveness (although you must admit, this is more than attractive), but not the extra 50kg of fat.
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Look, in the left picture it seems that the girl has a very broad shoulders, however, after losing weight, it becomes clear that it is not bones, but fat that makes it so square 
Hips narrowed 🙂 How to determine?
How to understand if the bone is wide or not? Feel yourself 🙂 If you feel fat through the skin, then, alas, you won’t be able to blame it on the bones. But if under the skin you feel a hard surface with a slight fat layer, then you are the happy owner of chic, wide hips, which the vast majority of men consider sexy!
What means?
The search for a wide bone means one thing: that you clearly need to lose weight! Many people believe in the "big bone" more than the big bang theory. Except for the inside where the brain is located, bones are solid structures made of calcium.
Once you stop growing, you can't change the size of your bones without seriously harming your health. However, you can change the size of body fat. This is what will help you change your appearance. Therefore, read this article to the end and find out how to solve the problem.
So what if you don’t see a waist like that of a young Gurchenko? But they did not approach Krachkovskaya either. So love yourself and take care of yourself without any complexes!
How to lose weight?
What is body positivity in simple words?
Unfortunately, the true meaning of body positivity is now lost behind the showdown of fat ladies with clothing companies (as well as, by the way). The message is that a person (yes, not only women, but also men) is not obliged to be “attractive” for anyone according to some gloss standards.
If a person is satisfied with his own beauty, he is not obliged to chase after utopian newfangled trends. We are absolutely not against the overweight and support such a body-positive: you don’t need to be like someone else, you need to be better than yourself yesterday. Let a person decide for himself what kind of life he should live.
Love yourself the way you are. But do not harm other people with this, do not force them to love you - your freedom ends where the freedom of another person begins!
Body positivity is about diversity of beauty. About the ability to see it everywhere - in others, in yourself. Around. About your right to have a nose, not like the models in the magazine, and a couple of extra pounds. About the ability to enjoy the possibilities of your body - from running jumping into the water to sex.
Love yourself, but don't indulge yourself! There is a lot of talk today about love, especially about loving yourself first. But no one talks about what kind of love this should be. No one says that love can be painful: overprotective, destructive, pulling back, hindering progress.
No one says that love is not the satisfaction of all one's desires, it is not self-pity, it is not “wrapping oneself in cotton wool” and intentionally avoiding difficulties. True love is not about following your destructive habits, but about getting better, moving forward: taking care of your health and well-being.
Self love should make you a better person. If it's not, then it's a surrogate. Chocolate, cigarette, Bloody Mary - these are not manifestations of your love for yourself, but only an ersatz one slipped into your subconscious.
For example, you decide to go on a diet, but at the same time perceive it as a severe restriction, as a mockery. You suffer from refusing high-calorie, fatty, sweet foods. And in the depths of your subconscious, the conclusion is born that you do not love yourself, since you voluntarily doom yourself to such sacrifices.
Your subconscious thinks within the framework that you yourself have given it. Everything is mixed up in your life - it seems to you that self-love, true pleasure lies in following your emotions and the thoughts that you associate with them, and the slightest deviation from a given trajectory is stress and pain.
Remember, everything is in your head and everything is in your hands. Our article can help you deal with similar problems.
A funny video
Do not be upset because of the weight, but rather listen to the cool song “Oh, you are a wide bone”:
You've probably already heard from overweight people once: "It's just heavy bones!" But with this myth, you can do away with it once and for all. Finally find out if heavy bones really exist.
How heavy are our bones?
Is overweight caused by heavy bones? This is a myth and lazy excuse of fat people. This has been confirmed by the Federal Ministry of Education and scientific research. The bones form the structure of the skeleton, which supports the body and allows the body to stand upright.
In an average person, bones make up about 8 to 9% of the total body weight. It would be only 7.2 kg at 80 kilograms. Not a reason at all overweight.
The weight of a bone is derived from its size and density. Thus, individual bones have different weights. In general, women have somewhat lighter and more thin bones than men. Moreover, due to high mobility, healed injuries, as well as genetic predisposition, bone density can vary. However, these fluctuations are at most 10% within the bone mass and are not more than one kilogram per person.
What then makes people heavy?
What really leads to being overweight is the accumulated fat in our body. Which is a consequence too a large number food or unbalanced nutrition, which is stored as a reserve for a rainy day. Of course, there is another reason why some non-fat people are heavier than others. Muscle is very heavy compared to fat. So a muscular man weighs more than a thin and unathletic one.
Heavy people are somewhat denser and therefore bones become heavier over time. Since their body needs more support, and it doesn't matter if it's too much fat or big muscle mass. Such somewhat heavier bones do not cause overweight.
Can bone density be improved?
By poor diet or diseases such as osteoporosis leads to a decrease in bone density. As a result, damage to the skeleton and serious consequences for health. However, you can influence your bone density yourself. Through a diet rich in calcium, bones are strengthened. In addition, frequent and regular exercise also contributes to the development of dense and stable bones.
Researchers' opinion
Canadian scientists have found that the higher the load, the wider and heavier the bone. Before drawing this conclusion, they observed the physical activity of adolescents. Researchers claim that sport helps not to break down in the literal sense. Not only muscles become stronger, but also the skeleton. It is known that a person has exactly 206 bones. All of them form a vertical column. Thanks to him, the body can afford to walk on two legs. The human hand is considered the most bony - it consists of more than 54 elements.
Tubular, short, flat and mixed - each bone has its own purpose, but the function is the same: to serve as a strong frame for the body. The worst thing that the skeleton can get sick with is “osteogenesis imperfecta” (crystal disease).
What contributes to the strengthening of bone tissue?
The structure of a person's bones changes throughout his life. After birth, it increases, reaching a peak by 25-30 years. From 30 to 45 years, bone density practically does not change, and after 45 years, regardless of whether a person is sick or healthy, a natural physiological process of rarefaction of the bone structure begins.
To prevent bone density from decreasing, you should not only exercise, but also include foods high in calcium in your diet. The daily intake of calcium for an adult is 1200 milligrams. Most of all it is in cottage cheese, cheese, whole milk, fermented milk products. If calcium is not supplied enough, the body begins to take it from the bones.
Some numbers
Where the excuse “I have a wide bone” came from is hard to say. But you can publish text about how much the skeleton weighs and how much its weight can vary from person to person.
A dry, fat-free and dehydrated human skeleton (that is, what will remain of us in this world) weighs on average only about 4 kg for men and about 2.8 kg for women. In percentage terms, the skeleton occupies approximately 6-7% of the body weight in an adult.
Bone density makes adjustments
We all know from the course of the school curriculum what density is - and so, with the same volumes, the skeletons of different people of a person can have slightly different weights, i.e. Some people will have thicker bones, some less. How big a difference can there be and what does it depend on?
Bone mineral density can change with age (including due to osteoporosis), with concomitant diseases, nutrition (decrease with malnutrition, and vice versa - with adequate nutrition). Also, bone density depends on weight loss or weight gain: scientists have calculated that with the loss of each 1 kg of fat in the body, an average of about 16.5 g of minerals is lost in the bones, in fact, when gaining the same 1 kg of fat, about the same amount is restored by background of the existing training volume.
Here are typical normal values for bone density, including data for athletes and athletes who develop bone tissue adaptation to impact loading, and an approximate calculation of the difference in grams between these values, so that you can clearly understand what is the general value for total bone / skeletal weight, has bone density.
Average values for bone mass density in adults are in the region of 1.0 – 1.2 g/cm2. Roughly speaking, this can be translated as +/-10% in different people depending on the factor. These values vary by age, gender, race, level, and type. physical activity, nutritional status, the state of the body, the presence of diseases, etc.
By the way, even growth hormone does not make significant adjustments to bone density. Scientists conducted a controlled 15-year study in which growth hormone injections were given to more than 100 people. Bottom line: over 15 years, the average increase in bone mass was only 14 grams.
Wide but light
In the end, what we have: that the total mass of human bones, excluding fat and liquid filling, is something around 4-5 kg in adult men and 2-3 kg in adult women.
Within these same boundaries, the mass may fluctuate, depending on the density of the bone mass, but again, this difference will not be so significant, in any case - up to 1 kg, depending on the density of the bone mass. By and large, talk about “broad bone”, “powerful skeleton”, which drastically affect the overall weight of a person’s body, “fat power” and genetic predisposition to increased weight gain, in fact, is not quite comparable with the real state of things.
Yes, the difference in height and build certainly gives its shifts in various indicators of bone mass from person to person, but these indicators do not differ by 5-10 kilograms, but average no more than 2-3 kg from person to person.
Netizens responses
Guest
This means that the bones are denser than those of other dead-boned people, but a heavy bone has one or even two minuses, firstly, a heavy bone makes a person fat, and secondly, and for a girl, this is especially important, with a heavy bone, a person walks with a limp, barely rearranging legs, and non-plastic.
Anna
What nonsense, a heavy bone does not at all mean that a person is overweight, he can be thin, it’s just that the structure of the skeleton is not athletic and non-plastic, a person cannot “lift his leg”, junk is hard for him, and he walks with a heavy gait.
Svetlana
It's the 21st century, and people still don't know such elementary things! Bones weigh the same for everyone: 7 kg for women, 10 kg for men. If the bones, as they say, were “heavy” not in words, a person simply would not be able to fully move, the joints could not absorb all movements. The expression itself refers to people of dense physique. By the way, there were no full ones in Buchenwald.
Pie
“The human skeleton consists of about 206 bones, which in a healthy person make up about 17.5% of body weight. Muscles account for 43%, internal organs ≈ 19%, skin and subcutaneous fat≈ 17.8%, brain ≈ 2.2%. These data are averaged and vary from person to person.
Uninvited Guest
It's like mine. With a height of 49 kg, I look large. Not complete, but some kind of wide. Even when she weighed 47, she was still far from thin in appearance. For all my attempts to achieve elegance, I get a zero result, because even with a small weight there is no elegance at all. In general, a disgusting physique, especially with short stature.
This is true. it all depends on the number of partitions in the spongy bones, the thickness of the bone wall, the content of calcium and other trace elements. Men have heavier bones than women.
GooD HaSH
Heavy bones simply have more weight. And when the bones are heavy, this is very good, because fractures and all sorts of cracks happen several times less often than in people with light bones. By the way, heavy bones can be not only in men, but also in women.
Nathilty
In everyday life, this often means the constitution of the skeletal structure, the bone tissue itself is porous and calcium and other minerals should normally accumulate in these pores, and due to multiple pregnancies, prolonged periods, when taking medicines(diuretic, antihistamines, etc.), due to age-related changes, calcium is washed out, the so-called osteoporosis
All answers are generally correct, I'll just add, in women, bone thickness can be determined by measuring the wrist, unless you are severely obese, of course. Less than 16-17 bones are light, more heavy.
Bones cannot be heavy or light. Most likely, this refers to the type of physique. There are only three of them - mesomorphic - the so-called average build, people of this type are usually of medium height, they have moderately developed muscles, etc.; the brachymorph type suggests a wide skeleton, that is, the bones of this type are not heavier, but wider than those of other types. People of this type usually have wide hands, they have large feet, broad shoulders. And the last type is dolichomorphic. These are the elves. They have a fragile physique, usually long thin fingers, narrow chest. Determining your body type is easy - just measure your wrist. If you get a figure less than 15 cm for a woman, then you have a narrow bone, if from 15 to 17 cm - you have an average build, if the value is more than 17 cm, then you have wide bones.
Olga
a heavy bone is a heavy bone. Wide bone can be light, narrow bone can be heavy. I have a wide and heavy one. As a child, when I was skinny as a bicycle, I always weighed more than my peers, of similar height and build. From there I know that my bone is heavy 🙂
Until the age of 25, I was firmly convinced that I would never have to limit myself in food. Now I understand that if I had been a little less lucky with my metabolism, then with such eating habits, I simply would not have crawled through the door. And a few years ago, I sincerely wondered why someone couldn’t eat half a cake at night or deny themselves fresh pastries. I remember the anxious glances of a photo editor at one of my previous jobs, when I devoured pies one by one, sitting at the monitor. “Oh, you’ll spoil the figure!” He sighed and I just laughed.
But, despite the fact that I was thin since childhood, beautiful press never boasted. “You have such a structure: the stomach is set close,” my relatives told me, and I took it for granted. Well, what can you do - such heredity! I think that I would have spent my whole life with this naive confidence if one day I had not come to the gym. She came, as is usually the case, with the intention of "slightly tightening her muscles." Months of “amateur activity” and useless exercises - and then the truth suddenly revealed: you can radically change your body, if you only want to. True, this requires not only training, but also thoughtful nutrition. And "close-set stomach" is just as stupid as "wide bone." We eliminate buns and cakes - we get the coveted strip on the stomach.
A host of other real-life examples lead me to believe that what we consider to be an irresistible genetic feature is very often nothing more than the result of our ignorance, laziness and inaction.
Almost all the participants of the Lose Weight with the Lady project, who are overweight, grew up in families where fullness was considered hereditary. Although in the process of communicating with nutritionists, it turned out that the reason for everything is the wrong lifestyle, to which all family members are accustomed. Yes, most often the recipes for rich borscht and pork chops, passed down from generation to generation, and joint evenings at the TV, and not “broad bone”, are to blame.
X-ray of a person weighing more than 200 kg. As you can see, the width of the bone is quite standard
I look with admiration at one of my colleagues: athletic, slender, energetic Ksyusha. Five days a week, she can be seen in the morning at the corporate gym, and at exactly 13.00 she has lunch in the kitchen: salad, vegetables, fish. She counts calories and does not look exhausted at all: on the contrary, she is full of energy. A few years ago, Ksyusha was able to lose 20 kg and now keeps herself in great shape. “When I now come to visit relatives, they say that they are ashamed in front of me. That looking at me, they understand that this is not a “big bone”, but banal laziness.
Another example: I once met a girl who teaches strip plastic. I was surprised by her flexibility and grace, and how easily she sat on the splits. I was amazed when I learned that by nature her body is literally “wooden”, and stretching has always been incredibly difficult for her. But Katya wanted to dance so much that she constantly overcame herself. For years, she had to learn what others were given without difficulty. Can you imagine how insulting it is: a beginner, having barely come to class, easily does what you did only after a couple of years? But this did not stop her: “I did not compare myself with others, but with the one I was in the past, and I understood that I was moving forward.”
So is there a notorious heredity, and how important is it in improving the body?
Yes, indeed, the metabolic rate of different people may vary, although this factor is not always due to heredity. And there are lucky ones who are able to eat almost as much as they like and not get better, but most often it is only up to a certain time. So, erratic eating had practically no effect on my figure until the age of 25. But at some point, I nevertheless realized that I was starting to look different than I would like. Indeed, in addition to the quantity of the body, there is also quality - it can be elastic or loose, toned or flabby, young or old. Sports and healthy eating everyone needs it, regardless of weight and volume. But for those who are lucky by nature, it is often difficult to take on themselves. And when the reflection in the mirror begins to upset, it is often too late to radically change something. So luck is doubtful!
There are those who know for sure: it is enough for them to eat a couple of pieces of cake in the evening in order to see +1.5 kilograms on the scales in the morning! These women, as a rule, realize earlier that beautiful body means hard work. And when, after 30 years, their friends, lucky thin women who have not denied themselves anything all their lives, turn into “skinny-fat”, they, who have kept themselves in control all the time, will remain slim and young. If you are one of those who are not lucky by nature, remember: “bad” heredity in this case can turn into your trump card!
In a word, do not hesitate: in matters of harmony, genetics is far from a determining thing. What really matters is your lifestyle, your diet, and how strong your desire to change is. And if, after reading this column, you still want to be indignant: “It’s easy for you to say, but I really have a wide bone,” just open the refrigerator now. Look carefully at sausages and sausages, drinkable yogurt, which has more sugar than milk. Count how many times a day you drink tea with "something tasty." And then repeat this phrase again.
Asthenic body type . Women of this constitution are characterized by general thinness, long and thin neck, narrow shoulders, flat and narrow chest, elongated thin limbs, long face and thin nose. Growth is often above average. Muscles in such women are poorly developed. Therefore, they lack strength and endurance. But the representatives of this group are energetic, light and elegant, have a small weight. Of the obvious advantages of an asthenic physique, it is worth mentioning the minimum tendency to be overweight. When choosing sports disciplines, it is better to give preference to those that are aimed at developing the missing skills: strength and endurance. These include swimming, aerobics, dancing. To correctly classify your physique as a thin-boned type, measure the circumference of your wrist. In the group under consideration, it should be less than 16 cm.
Normosthenic body type . In women of this constitution, the main body sizes are proportional. Such ladies often have slender legs, slim waist and, in general, a harmonious figure. Growth is usually average. Such people are naturally well-coordinated, sharp and fast. Of the sports disciplines, game types (volleyball, basketball, etc.), as well as tennis, water aerobics, are best suited. Wrist circumference should be between 16 and 18.5 cm.
Hypersthenic body type . Women of this constitution have heavy and wide bones, voluminous shoulders, a wide and short chest, and slightly shortened limbs (as a rule). Growth is often below average. By nature, such ladies have strength and endurance, but are deprived of flexibility and grace. Therefore, the recommended sports disciplines are as follows: yoga, callanetics, martial arts and so on. In addition, the disadvantages of the hypersthenic body type include a low metabolic rate, which implies an increased tendency to be overweight. The circumference of the wrist with a broad-boned physique is more than 18.5 cm.
Growth rate and leg length
You can also determine your body type based on the height and length of the legs. For a normal-boned and wide-boned body build, the range between 166 and 170 cm is considered normal growth, while for the asthenic type it is within 168 - 172 cm. There are certain proportions between the height and length of a person's legs. Legs are considered short if their length is less than half the height.
The length of the legs is measured from the tubercle of the femur, located opposite hip joint, to the floor.
The ideal leg length should be within the following limits:
- asthenic type: legs are 2-4 cm longer than half the height
- normosthenic type: legs are 4-6 cm longer than half the height
- hypersthenic type: legs are 6-9 cm longer than half the height
Do not be discouraged if your performance does not match the ideal. Create visibility desired length legs can be with the help of heels. By the way, this is one way to find the perfect heel height. Just count how many cm you do not fit into the standards and wear heels of just that height.
Whiteles and the Pinier Index
Whiteles(from English vitels vital organs) - dimensions female figure- height, leg length, bust, waist, hips
Normal whites for young women:
body typeasthenicNormosthenicHypersthenicCircle chest 84 - 86 cm1/2 height + 2-5cm1/2 height + 8-10cmBreast volumeChest circumference + 4-6 cmChest circumference + 8-10 cmWaist circumference60 - 64 cmHeight - 105 cm70 - 76 cmHip circumferenceWaist circumference + 30cmWaist circumference + 30cmWaist circumference + 28 cmFor a more objective assessment, you can also use the indicators of the Pignet index.
Pinier index = standing height (cm) - (body weight (kg) + chest circumference (cm))
With indicators less than 10 - a strong (dense) physique; 10-25 - normal; 26-35 - weak; more than 35 - very weak.
Weight norm
Of course, being overweight does not adorn any woman. Beauty is health, harmony, smartness. It is these external data that men consider ideal on a subconscious level. In addition, fullness leads to premature aging of the whole organism. That is why it is very important to know the limits of your normal weight. But what do they depend on? Is it just height and age? Not only. To correctly determine the norm of weight, it is necessary to take into account the characteristics of your body: the general structure of the body (type of constitution), shoulder width, chest features, etc.
However, we must not forget that being overweight is not always a sign of excess body fat. Adipose tissue It is an integral part of any living organism. And she is vital to him. Under normal conditions, the amount of fat in men is 1/20, and in women 1/16 of body weight. And about 75% of all fat is located directly under the skin. A small amount of fat under the skin protects against bruises and hypothermia. Certain minimum body fat internal organs keeps them in the right place, protects them from excessive mobility, injuries and concussions. In addition, fat is energy that can be used if needed.
On our site there are several ways to calculate the norm of weight, based on the characteristics of the type of physique.
Using the formula below, you can find out your weight per 1 centimeter of height:
Weight per 1 cm of height = body weight (grams) / height (centimeters)
Knowing your body type, multiply the coefficient by your height, and you will get your normal weight.
The weight limit for women by a certain age can be calculated from the table below:
Well, let's, ladies, take out a centimeter and measure your wrist from bone to bone ... I have exactly 18, but how many do you have?
“I'm not fat - it's a wide bone,” overweight people continue to assert. By this they explain to themselves and others their unsuccessful attempts to lose weight and the senselessness of physical and dietary “violence” on the body.
And indeed: a large body weighing 100 kg cannot be supported on the same skeleton as that of a fragile girl with her 45 kg!
How much do bones weigh
The human skeleton consists of 206 bones. It seems like a lot. It is not surprising that overweight people nod at their volumes and authoritatively assert that the fault of their large dimensions is a giant skeleton hidden under thin skin. That is, it is assumed that the weight of a person is largely dependent on the weight of his bones. Is it so?
In 2014, American fitness expert Matt Marshall tested this claim. He turned to scientists at Michigan State University, where he was examined using a densitometry method, which is designed to measure bone mineral density, but also allows you to calculate its weight. It turned out that the weight of the bones of Marshall, who at that time was in good physical form and weighed 80 kg, amounted to only 3.6 kg (fat in the body of the athlete gained 6.3 kg).
For comparison, Marshall took densitometry data from another person who weighed 118 kg. Of these, 46 kg accounted for fat and only 4.2 kg for bone tissue. In the same way, data obtained from an examination of an obese woman weighing 96 kg were compared. The weight of her skeleton was 3.2 kg. Similar ratios were obtained for 50 other obese adults.
According to doctors, the skeleton of a normal adult healthy average male weighing 90 kg accounts for approximately 15% of total weight body. And this is taking into account water (half of the weight of the skeleton) and organic matter (another 28% of the total mass). So, if we talk about bones freed from moisture and fat, then they will account for only 6-7% of the total weight of a person.
There is even such a thing as "estimated bone mass" - this is actually the bones in their pure form without fat and water. Tanita conducted a study and concluded that for women between the ages of 20 and 40, the average estimated bone mass is:
- with a weight of less than 50 kg - approximately 2 kg;
- with a weight of 50 to 75 kg - 3.5 kg;
- with a weight of more than 75 kg - 3 kg.
For men of the same age, the following data were obtained:
- with a weight of less than 65 kg - approximately 2 kg;
- with a weight of 65 to 95 kg - 2.5 kg;
- with a weight of more than 95 kg - 3 kg.
Thin bones and wide bones
No one disputes that the weight of skeletons will vary from person to person. For example, the bones of a tall person weigh more than the bones of a shorter person. And even the very concept of "wide bone" deserves the right to exist. It is enough to measure the circumference of the wrist or ankles with a centimeter - in these places a person has little fat and muscles, mainly skin and bones - to make sure: there are people with both “thin” and “wide” bones.
Women height 157-158cm:
- "thin bone" - wrist girth less than 14 cm;
- "normal bone" - from 14 to 14.6 cm;
- "broad bone" - a wrist girth of more than 14.6 cm.
Women height 159-166cm:
- "thin bone" - wrist girth less than 15.2 cm;
- "normal bone" - from 15.3 to 15.9 cm;
- "wide bone" - 16 cm or more.
Women 167 cm and above:
- "thin bone" - wrist girth less than 16 cm;
- "normal bone" - from 16 to 16.5 cm;
- "wide bone" - 16.6 cm or more.
Men 167 cm tall and above:
- "thin bone" - wrist girth from 14 cm to 16.5 cm;
- "normal bone" - from 16.6 to 19 cm;
- "broad bone" - 19.1 cm or more.
In 2011, experts from North Carolina State University confirmed that the neck of the femur is wider in obese people than in people of normal weight. This is due to the fact that, firstly, large people move in a special way, and secondly, the body gradually adapts to big weight, which leads to thickening of the femoral neck - one of the most vulnerabilities of the human body in relation to fractures.
But even with the above data, studies show that only 15% of people have a slightly larger skeleton than the majority of the population. The difference in the weight of the skeleton will still not be so great that it can be said that this “heavy bone” puts pressure on the scales: 1-1.5 kg of the difference in bone mass does not justify the extra 30-40 or more kg.
And one more important point: bone density does not affect their size. Osteoporosis can make bones a little lighter, but it doesn't make them shorter or thinner. Calcium is washed out of the bones in this disease, but their very structure, the framework remains unchanged.
Bones, fats and health
It has been proven that excess fat even damages the bones. Previously, it was believed that the bone marrow contains an "untouchable reserve" of fat. And it is not consumed for energy, like the rest body fat. Moreover, until recently, the function of fat in the bone marrow of mammals, which is also a delicacy in cooking, remained a mystery to scientists. It was impossible even to say for sure whether it benefits the body or harms it.
But this year, scientists from the University of North Carolina reported that bone marrow “obesity” increases the risk of fractures. It turned out that the higher the fat content in the bone marrow, the lower the bone mineral density, that is, the bones become more fragile. According to scientists, with obesity, fat reserves in the bones increase in the same way as fats in the abdomen, buttocks and other parts of the body - and in the same way negatively affect human health.
You can correct the situation with the help of banal exercise. During experiments on mice, it was demonstrated how the fat content in the bone marrow changes as the animals lose weight with the help of intensive physical activity. The overall size of adipocyte fat cells decreased, while bone thickness and density increased. The researchers remind that both fat cells and bone cells come from the same mesenchymal stem cells. Therefore, there is an assumption that during training, fat is burned in the bones, and the resulting energy goes to the production of bone tissue and its strengthening.
The difference in the weight of the skeleton, as well as in the thickness of its individual sections, is so insignificant that it cannot significantly affect the mass of the human body.
Obesity is a threat to the health of all, without exception, organs of the body, including the skeleton.
Physical activity and a healthy diet will save the world - both from obesity and from bone tissue pathologies.
