Состав тела человека: история изучения и новые технологии определения

Study of human body composition became a new field of medicine and biology and appeared as a separated direction in the second half of XX century. The paper presents retrospective review of studies devoted to human body composition and gives short description of current methods to determine the amount of fat, muscle and bone tissue in the human body. Special attention is paid to bioelectrical impedance analysis, as the most promising method now.