Get Healthy Now with Denise Thomson: Why Measuring Your Body Fat?

Good morning and welcome to Get Healthy Now with Denise Thomson, Certified Health Coach, Nurse, Fitness Trainer, Educator, Speaker and Published Best Selling Author.

Why is measuring your body fat more accurate than standing on a scale?

Why are these numbers important and according to whom?W

Personal health, Dr. orders,

What is a BF% test and how is it done?

A BF test is an attempt to separate every pound of your body into 1 or 2 categories: your fat mass & everything else. What isn't fat is considered "lean body mass" which consists of your bones, muscles, hair, water, + misc. stuff, not just muscle.

Small, slender people with low weight may have greater BF% than large, more muscular peole and higher weight.

The weight on a scale is not a true representation of your health.

Methods of measuring BF%:

Hydrostatic weighing

Hand-held devices, scales measuring BF% (not always accurate)

Calipers: easiest andmost accurate choice.

- measure skin fold, where, how, why, lesson, goal, formula  

http://www.bodybuilding.com/content/how-to-measure-your-body-fat.html

Four-Site Skinfold Equation for females:

%BF = (0.29669 x sum of skinfolds)

- (0,00043 x sum of skinfolds squared)

+ (0.02963 x age)

+ 1.4072  = % BF

Skinfolds are measured in mm: Abdominal, Triceps, Thigh, Suprailliac (just above hip bone)

When healthy, %BF between 21 - 29 or 30, more energy, better focus, usually no meds, more opportunities: work, travel, fun, healthy BP, BS, Chol, lower risk of heart attack, etc.

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