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Fat Calculator.
Most
of us
are focused on fat. Since the time we are kids we are told that fat is
bad for
us. Some people are more worried about
calories than fat. To be honest you should be worried about both.
You need
to make sure that your diet isn't full of junk food.
You should be getting your
calories from foods that are good for you. Who cares about not eating
any fat,
if all your calories come from sweets? I'm not sure how much I believe
fat is
the bad thing we make it out to be. I'm starting to believe that carbs
are the
real evil in the diet empire. I really do think this is why so many
people are
overweight in this world.
When it all
comes down to losing or gaining weight, most people turn to the scales
to
determine how much they should lose or
gain to have the weight or the shape that they desire.
However, it
is well known that weight alone is not a clear indicator of
good health because
it does not tell between pounds that come from body fat and those that
come
from lean body mass or muscle.
Your have
to understand that being over fat and
overweight is not the same.
Overweight simply means an excess of total
body weight based on
population averages for heights and body frame sizes.
On the
other hand, obesity
is defined as an excess of body fat regardless of weight.
What we
have to think about, experts said, in order to determine our fitness,
is to
know our body fat.
Remember
that body fat is a percentage of your
total weight, so even slender people can have dangerously high levels
of body
fat.
Here are
the ways of measuring your body fat:
Home Body Fat
Scales - Body fat scales claim to measure body fat
quickly and conveniently. These
body fat scales use the Bioelectrical Impedance method to measure your
body fat percentage. A low-level electrical current is
passed through your body
and the "impedance", or opposition to the flow of current, is
measured.
Skin fold Calipers - Calipers are a tool that
looks somewhat like a giant tweezers. These
are used to grasp your skin folds at different points on your body and
measure
the thickness. These measurements are then compared to standard values
for
persons of your age and gender to give you your estimated body fat.
Hydrostatic
Weighing - this is just a fancy term for underwater
weighing. You sit
on a scale inside a tank of water and
blow out as much air as you can. You
are
dunked underwater, where you blow out even more air.
Since fat is lighter than water, the more fat
you have, the more you will float.
The
scale measures underwater weight to figure out body density. The margin of
error is around 2-3%, but the
accuracy depends on the amount of air you expel. You have to blow it
ALL out or
it will not be as accurate.
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