BSI - Body Square Index

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BSI: Body Square Index Background: BMI / Body Mass Index The body mass index is a heuristic proxy for human body fat. The formula describes the individual's body mass divided by the square of his/her weight While the formula previously called the Quetelet Index for BMI dates to the 19th century, the new term body mass index for the ratio and its popularity date to a paper published in the July edition of 1972 in the Journal of Chronic Diseases by Ancel Keys, which found the BMI to be the best proxy for body fat percentage among ratios of weight and height; the interest in measuring body fat being due to obesity becoming a discernible issue in prosperous Western societies. BMI was explicitly cited by Keys as being appropriate for population studies, and inappropriate for individual diagnosis. Nevertheless, due to its simplicity, it came to be widely used for individual diagnosis, despite its inappropriateness. BMI provided a simple numeric measure of a person's thickness or thinness, allowing health professionals to discuss over- and underweight problems more objectively with their patients.

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BSI: Body Square Index Sketches: How can the body describe a square?

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BSI Body Square Index How can the body become a square?

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Body Square Index Exercise I: Describing Squares with the Body Three 1:1 Body Scans 3 Prints 1: Flexed Square 2: Measured Square 3: Flexed & Measured Square





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Body Square Index Exercise II: Using Frames to Describe Body Squares Eight 1:1 Body Scans with a Square template

Hypothesis kg/m2 is the same like becomes 100g/10cm2 50g/5cm2 10g/cm2 Illustration in these units


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Body Square Index Exercise II: Using Frames to Describe Body Squares Eight 1:1 Body Scans with a Square template

measuring the body in kg/m2 avarage amount of skin: 2m2 each body part is illustrated in 100g/10cm2 50g/5cm2 10g/cm2 body parts in percent Head 6 percent Arms

13 percent

Hands

4,6 percent

front body 20 percent back body 18 percent legs

31 percent

feet

6,3 percent


Head: 6 percent


Arms: 13 percent


Body, front, upper: 20 percent / 4


Flank - Body, side, lower: 20 percent / 4


Body, front, lower: 20 percent / 4


Tummy - Body, front, lower: 20 percent / 4


Ass - Body Back - lower: 18 percent / 1


Inner Tight - Right Leg 31 percent / 8


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