Weight Loss - Is the body fat scale accurate?

If you have any reading about health and fitness, you will know one thing: body fat is important and weight is not. Although the two usually go hand in hand, there are always people who are overweight and seem to be overweight but have high muscle mass and are actually very thin.

If you want to lose weight, it is best to measure whether you are losing weight or losing weight. Weight can be a mixture of fat and lean muscle tissue, which is less than ideal.

When you work hard to improve your health, you just want to lose weight. So now I'm starting to ask this question. Should you invest in a body fat scale? This seems to be the best solution. In this way, you can monitor how body fat levels change. However, before you run out and buy the first individual grease scale, you need to remember one thing: not all scales are accurate.

This is to be remembered.

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  There are many ways to measure your body fat level...

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 One method is to pinch various parts of the body and determine the thickness of these parts. The thicker you squeeze, the more body fat you have: this is called a skin caliper reading.

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 Another way is to let yourself pass an electronic scanner, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry [DXA, formerly known as DEXA], which will determine bone density, fat mass and lean muscle mass organization. This is the most accurate method. However, you can't do it yourself, and it can be expensive to implement.

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 The third method is to use a so-called bioelectrical impedance, that is, the position at which the current is transmitted through the body, and the traveling speed is determined. The current does not pass quickly through the amount of fat, so the slower it is, the more fat you say.

The bioelectrical impedance method seems to be ideal in theory, but the problem is that your hydration level can discard it. If you are dehydrated, you will appear to be more "fat" than your moisturizer. This method is the most commonly used household scale. While it's helpful to be able to easily see your reading, it's not accurate. You can follow one of the current trends and use one of the household scales, but keep in mind that you need to be at the same level of hydration. Measuring your level every morning can help your hydration levels be similar.

Checking your body fat several times a year with a DXA scanner and relying on the look and feel of the clothes may be a better approach.

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