2.2. Weight Management Basics

“Weight Management Basics” is an adaptation of the chapter “Weight Management” from Concepts of Fitness and Wellness, by Scott Flynn, Lisa Jellum, Althea Moser, Jonathan Howard, Sharryse Henderson, Christin Collins, Amanda West, and David Mathis, and the chapter “Indicators of Health: Body Mass Index, Body Fat Content, and Fat Distribution” from Human Nutrition, by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Food Science and Human Nutrition Program. Both are licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license. New material has been incorporated that includes Canadian guidelines. Information that is not relevant to this course has been removed.

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Fundamentals of Health and Physical Activity by Kerri Z. Delaney and Leslie Barker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.