THE ENERGY REQUIREMENTS OF SUBTROPIC PRESCHOOL CHILDREN 1. The Measurement of Body Surface and Its Relationship with Body Weight and Height / 营养学报

ABSTRACT

The body surface of thirty children was measured basically by the method of Du Bois but a very fitted cotton-made thin underwear was put on before winded with adhesive bondages to fix all the body shapes. The cloth that covered the body was removed by cutting along the middle line of each parts that wrapped and put on a standard paper to measure it's areas.The correlation of body height and weight with body surface was estimated and an equation made:S (surface in cm2) =42.3556XH +175.6882XW-272.2716The theoretical value by this equation for the 30 children is 7248.8cm2 and by the equation of Du Bois is 7096.3 cm2, but there is no statistical difference between those two figures. On the basis of the deviation (Y-Y)2 from both two formulas ours is much better.