In the past, most studies have gauged body fat based on body mass index (BMI).
By hearing only his voice, viewers could not gauge his body language, and the conviction he demonstrated when he said: "Sexually attracted, you know, I enjoy young people.
He held the bird, beak up, to his lips and blew, parting its breast feathers and revealing the nubbly red skin underneath, so that he could gauge its body fat.
Next, one of Dr. Levine's colleagues, Shelly McCrady-Spitzer, placed a hooded mask over my head to measure the content of my exhalations and gauge my body's calorie-burning rate.
The bone sites of study were the tibia and calcaneus; magnitudes of concentration were used to gauge lead body burden.
In a test at the United States Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Carpenter's VO2 max, a gauge of the body's ability to process oxygen, registered at 90.2, perhaps a record high for a runner.
Because tooth development is a widely used gauge of overall body growth--one of the only ones that anthropologists have--the researchers inferred that Neandertals reached adulthood by age 15, about 3 years earlier than modern humans normally do.
The authors suggest that reflection is integral to the "professional identity" (ibid, p. 169) of their discipline, because a reflective process enables students and practitioners to accentuate the awareness of their own body, gauge its movement in space and develop necessary physical skills.
For example, the hormone leptin circulates throughout the body, gauging fat deposition and docking onto neurons to convey that the body has adequate food.
