To find someone to be overweight or not usually by knowing their weight. But apart from measuring the weight, to find out how fat your body can by measuring the shape of bones.
The key to knowing whether someone is overweight or not is the thigh bone. Part of the thigh bone is the femur observed, namely the thick bone and serves to hold the load.
Ann Ross, an anthropologist from North Carolina State University and the researchers studied 121 Gina Agostini framework of white people. The anthropologists found that people who are obese have a wider femur.
"Femur bone is almost like a buttress that makes something stronger," said Ann Ross, as quoted by LiveScience, Thursday (24/03/2011).
Ross said many people have the impression that the bone was not alive. Though the bone is the tissue that is alive and constantly changing. This change occurs because of pressure from the top.
Other studies have shown that people who are overweight and obese have different movements when walking compared to normal people. This is due to offset the additional weight they carry.
A study revealed that obese people will take steps when walking broader than people with normal weight. This difference can make the shape of the femur changed.
The study found in people who have excess weight and obesity also will have broader femur bone from side to side as compared with those who had normal weight.
In this study, researchers also take into account the person's age at death, sex, presence of certain diseases that could change the shape of bones, ethnic descent and the cause of death. The results of this study have been published in the March issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences.
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