Body weight 537663 196216704 2008-03-06T04:31:43Z Graham87 194203 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/165.139.169.189|165.139.169.189]] ([[User talk:165.139.169.189|talk]]) to last version by 71.146.24.20 Although many people prefer the less-ambiguous term '''body mass''', the term '''body weight''' is overwhelmingly used in daily English speech and in biological and medical science contexts to describe the [[mass]] of an organism's body. Body weight is measured in [[kilogram]]s throughout the world, although in some countries people more often measure and describe body weight in [[pound (mass)|pounds]] (e.g. [[United States]] and sometimes [[Canada]]) or [[Imperial unit|stones and pounds]] (e.g. [[United Kingdom]]) and thus may not be well acquainted with measurement in kilograms. Most hospitals in the United States now use kilograms for calculations, but use kilograms and pounds together for other purposes. (A kg is about 2.2 lbs, and a [[stone (weight)|stone]] (14 lb) is about 6.4 kg.) The term is usually encountered in connection with: *[[food]] and feeding behaviour *normal and abnormal [[growth]] and [[Maturation|development]] *the [[physiology|physiological]] and [[hormone|hormonal]] control of ingestion and [[digestion]] *[[foraging]] for food in non-human animals *[[hunger]] and other [[motivation]]s to eat *problems in regulating body weight, often resulting in [[obesity]] *[[eating disorders]] such as [[anorexia nervosa]] and [[bulimia nervosa]] *effects of [[disease]] * athletic competitions where the participants are classified according to their body weight ==Sports usage== Participants in sports such as [[boxing]], [[wrestling]], [[judo]], and [[weight-lifting]] are classified according to their body weight, measured in units of mass such as pounds or kilograms. See, e.g., [[wrestling weight classes]], [[boxing weight classes]], [[judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics]], [[boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics]]. == See also == *[[Human weight]] *[[Body mass index]] *[[Obesity]] *[[Overweight]] *[[Underweight]] [[Category:Mass]] [[Category:Body shape]] [[nl:Lichaamsgewicht]]