Get To Know Your Body Better

Delve past the surface to reach the core of what you’re really made up of.

- Amanda Soh

Remember that defining moment when you hit puberty? As the years go by, your body will inevitably keep changing. So, before you go on that no-carb or liquid diet, and resolve to work out at least once or twice a week, it helps to know more about your body and what’s normal.

Your body composition

The human body is comprised of four components: water, fat, muscles, and bones. “As the decades go by, you add two per cent to those components except water, which decreases over time,” says Dr Jasmine Ruth, an aesthetic physician at Nexus Clinic. To compensate, it’s necessary to drink more water daily as you age. For the average woman, about 50 per cent of the body is water (it’s about 10 per cent more for the average man). The rest is fat and fat-free mass, under which your muscles and bones fall under. As a healthy person, around 30 to 40 per cent of your body comprises of skeletal muscles.

What’s fat got to do with it?