Is 27% body fat good for a 19 year old girl?

Sabre1232
Sabre1232 Posts: 37 Member
edited August 2016 in Health and Weight Loss
I got my body fat measured, and it came out to be 27%.
I am only nineteen is this a healthy amount?
I am female.

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  • tiptoethruthetulips
    tiptoethruthetulips Posts: 3,371 Member
    27% is reasonable and within acceptable range. How was the body fat percentage measured though? The method used may not be a reliable one.
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    This depends somewhat on whether you're male or female. Healthy body fat percentages are higher for women. There's a rough chart in this article.
    http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/normal-ranges-of-body-weight-and-body-fat
  • Sabre1232
    Sabre1232 Posts: 37 Member
    I am female
  • NoNameJustMe
    NoNameJustMe Posts: 86 Member
    Per the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, 27% is overweight and it doesn't matter if male or female. Personally, I'll take the CDC info over any random web site: https://cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    edited August 2016
    NoNameJustMe wrote: »
    Per the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, 27% is overweight and it doesn't matter if male or female. Personally, I'll take the CDC info over any random web site: https://cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/

    27% bodyfat for a woman is not particularly overweight. Could lose some weight, but isn't really negative to your health. Your CDC link is to BMI, not bodyfat percentage. They are not the same thing.
  • NoNameJustMe
    NoNameJustMe Posts: 86 Member
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    NoNameJustMe wrote: »
    Per the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, 27% is overweight and it doesn't matter if male or female. Personally, I'll take the CDC info over any random web site: https://cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/

    27% bodyfat for a woman is not particularly overweight. Could lose some weight, but isn't really negative to your health. Your CDC link is to BMI, not bodyfat percentage. They are not the same thing.

    Yep, my bad. It's late and I'm running on empty :smile:
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    NoNameJustMe wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    NoNameJustMe wrote: »
    Per the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, 27% is overweight and it doesn't matter if male or female. Personally, I'll take the CDC info over any random web site: https://cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/

    27% bodyfat for a woman is not particularly overweight. Could lose some weight, but isn't really negative to your health. Your CDC link is to BMI, not bodyfat percentage. They are not the same thing.

    Yep, my bad. It's late and I'm running on empty :smile:

    No worries, totally understood. Thanks for not reading hostility into my response, been getting a lot of that on the forums lately. :/
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited August 2016
    NoNameJustMe wrote: »
    Per the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, 27% is overweight and it doesn't matter if male or female. Personally, I'll take the CDC info over any random web site: https://cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/

    27% body fat is well within the parameters of healthy for a woman ..it spans 21-33% and is age dependent
    it is however notoriously difficult to measure unless at autopsy ..which is a bit extreme

    You're linking to Body Mass Index which is a population measure and completely (well mainly completely) different

    Maybe you should listen to web folk a leetle bit longer

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