McPhie dropped five pounds, lowered her body fat composition and won her first World Cup event in January 2010.

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If your weight is excessive then the implication is that the excess is fat and, of course, people's body composition varies enormously and BMI doesn't know anything about that so it's a very imprecise index when applied to individuals.

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Institutions of higher education have a huge stake in the quality and type of students they attract, as the composition of their student body is critical to their development and success.

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And she could study the composition of the human body in the pathology unit at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital.

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In this interview, he talks about the composition of his student body at Sloan, the types of skills and experiences his students gain, how Sloan uses social media, and more.

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The studies measured the participants' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of their height and weight, but it wasn't able to take into account their body fat composition, or how much of their overall body weight was made up of fat versus muscle.

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