Well-being demands monitoring body fat. (Merchandising).(products on the...

MMR;  January 14, 2002 ;     478 words ......increasingly coming to believe that excess body fat, rather than excess pounds, represents...turn is creating a growing market for body fat monitoring devices, which are designed...people to get an accurate sense of their body fat percentage. Obesity has traditionally...

Tanita scales detect fat. (bathroom scales measure body fat)(Product...

HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network;  September 9, 1996 ;     584 words ......new product category designed to measure body fat ratios while also calculating standard...targeting the bathroom scale market, the body-fat monitor also is drawing attention from...read labels, there's nothing to monitor body fat, Kahn said. Most health professionals...

'Figure Your Body Fat: Step on it America!' Campaign Educates Consumers...

PR Newswire;  October 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ......America, Inc. today launches Figure Your Body Fat: Step On It America!, a new national education...consumers understand the relationship between body fat and body weight -- and the importance of monitoring body fat as part of a healthy lifestyle. Consumers...

Body fat testing: Here's the skinny

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 23, 1988 ;     700+ words ......brought a whole new meaning to the term "body fat" when he joined the Bears. Here was a...was not fat. At least not then. Perry's body fat test at Northeastern led Lesmes to believe...hydrostatic weighing, has 20 to 22 percent body fat," Lesmes said. "Perry was right in that...

How body fat scales measure up.

Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  September 5, 2006 ;     590 words ......you wanted to know your percentage of body fat, you had to go to a clinic, research or...body weight but also your percentage of body fat, water and muscle mass. It seems almost...equipment known as the BodPod. In contrast, body fat scales use a measuring method called ...

Stay On Track With Health and Fitness Resolutions by Monitoring Body Fat;...

PR Newswire;  October 8, 2002 ;     524 words ......progress and stay on track. A home-use body fat monitor/scale monitors changes in both weight and body fat, offering a way to gauge progress. Monitoring...in New York. Monitoring changes in both body fat and weight gives a more accurate picture...

Body fat tips scales in battle of bulge

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 20, 1987 ;     598 words ......to a popular new machine that measures body fat. "Once people see they are way over the...incentive booster." The percentage of body fat is a truer indication of health and fitness...weight. Women have 4 to 6 percent more body fat than men. But too much fat is unhealthy...

Want to Know Your Body Fat? Home Scale Is Convenient, Accurate.(evaluation...

Environmental Nutrition;  February 1, 2001 ;     420 words ......the bathroom scale that also measures body fat. Is it accurate? A. There are no 100...and underwater weighing. Why measure body fat? Simple. It's a better indicator of fitness...percent of your weight is fat. To be fit, body fat should fall within a certain range (see...

INFATUATION RESULTS OF SOME POPULAR BODY-FAT TESTS DON'T CARRY MUCH...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 9, 1996 ;     700+ words ......see how long it takes before the subject of body fat comes up. In a numbers-obsessed society, body-fat percentage is the newest addition to our...increasingly easy to come by. A bevy of take-home body-fat tests are on the market, one of which calibrates...

A Comparison of Visual Body Fat Estimates With Skinfold Caliper and...

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport;  March 1, 2001 ;     457 words ......acquired a fascination with determinations of body fat percentages. As a result, many new and improved body fat measurement instruments have been developed...may possibly ease the task of assessing body fat, the cost, validity, reliability and availability...

Three common composition techniques determine percentage of body fat....

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 18, 1994 ;     647 words ......the other hand, if they measured their body fat regularly, they would find they are losing...and non-invasive technique for measuring body fat. Here's a brief explanation of three of...quick and simple method for estimating body fat. Skinfold calipers are used to measure...

Calipers OK in pinch for body fat test

Oakland Tribune;  April 24, 2006 ;     667 words ......56-year-old female. At my gym they use calipers to measure body fat, but my body fat registers 9 percent lower on my Tanita scale than...related diseases. But, since the only way to calculate body fat with 100 percent accuracy is through a post mortem...

ROAD TO FITNESS; MAKE SURE BODY FAT NUMBER IS ACCURATE

Dayton Daily News;  April 15, 2003 ;     690 words ......bioelectrical impedance device for measuring body fat. We were wondering if you think these really...professionals recommend other means of determining body fat levels, knowing that hand-held body fat measuring devices have a very high error rate...

HOW DOES YOUR BODY FAT MEASURE UP?(LIFE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  March 24, 1998 ;     700+ words ......are available to calculate a person's body fat percentage. -------------------- It's...we hear these days. It's percentage of body fat that's a better indicator of fitness...fluids - and fat. Everyone needs some body fat - at least 5 percent for men, 12 percent...

Just how helpful are those fat monitors? those fat monitors? It's not...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......dropped as slimmersswitch to hightech body fat monitors. These devices not only tell...also muscles and bones. In contrast, a body fat monitor allows you to measure just how...disease, stroke and cancer. A healthy body fat percentage for a woman of 20-39 years...