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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 22, 836-841, Copyright © 1969 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc.

Standards of Subcutaneous Fat Applied to Percentile Norms for Elementary School Children

CHARLES B. CORBIN PH.D.1

1 From the Department of Health and Physical Education, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843

The purpose of this investigation was to develop standards of subcutaneous fat

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(skin fold for American chidren, specifically the children of College Station, Texas, elementary schools). Subscapular and triceps skin-fold measures were taken on 1,176 elementary school boys and girls in the College Station school system in an effort to develop percentile standards for skin-fold measures for elementary school children, grades 1-6. As expected, the results indicate that fat levels increase with the age of the children and that girls possess more fat than boys at all elementary school ages.






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