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Isn't that exactly why most modern scales are calculating your body fat?
by theCrowing 4y ago
Isn't that exactly why most modern scales are calculating your body fat?
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoThey do what now? How does that work?
- Ygg2 4y agoYes. They measure electric resistance of your body to determine fat vs muscle ratio.
- Sunspark 4y agoI am skeptical anyone needs this. If you have love handles that can be pinched, you already know where you are.
- dhosek 4y agoBut being able to measure changes in the pinchable love handles is not so simple. After all, getting regular feedback on whether a change is making a difference can be an incentive to maintain that change.
- wyre 4y agoUsing a cloth measuring tape and a mirror for reference gives plenty of feedback. Bf% from a scale is going to be so inconsistent I could only think it would be useful over a large timeframe to notice trends, which at that point your jeans are too big.
- dhosek 4y agoAre you basing this on actual experience or just your belief?
- theCrowing 4y agoMost modern scales use Bioelectrical impedance analysis [1] to calculate your body fat percentage. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrical_impedance_analysis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrical_impedance_anal...
- cactusplant7374 4y agoIt’s so inaccurate and fluctuates wildly if you are hydrated.
- _0w8t 4y agoOne the other hand if one does it in the same conditions it allows to track relative changes which is good enough for casual monitoring.
- glandium 4y agoI have a Tanita scale that does the body fat thing and more. It's so inaccurate that measuring twice back to back can yield vastly different results.
- ecshafer 4y agoI doubt Most modern scales use Bioelectrical impedance analysis. Do these scales exits? Yes. Can normal people get them? Yes. Do most scales do this? No, most scales are $20 scales bought at Target.