need to maintain low body fat levels to keep your body weight
in control. Excess body fat may lead to various diseases
including heart diseases. Hence it is necessary to carry out a
Body Comparison Analysis regularly.
One important reason to measure body fat is because it is
different to body weight. Losing body weight does not
necessarily mean that you have lost body fat because it
measures everything that constitutes the human body and not
just the fat. Someone who looks relatively trim may in fact
have high levels of body fat. So it is important to lose body
fat as part of your weight loss plan.
Body fat is measured in percentage terms using various
techniques. Some of the common techniques of measuring body fat
level include body fat scales, hydrodensitometry, and skinfold
calipers measurement. These have been explained below:
Body fat scales: In this method, a low current is passed
through your body. The resistance offered to the passage of
this current depends on your body fat level.
Hydrodensitometry weighing: Also known as underwater weighing
or hydrostatic weighing, this method measures your body fat
level by your body volume and body weight in water. Your weight
is first measured outside water and then you are immersed in a
pool of water. Your weight is measured under water. Your weight
in water depends on the amount of fat in your body. The more the
fat content of your body, the lesser your weight under water.
Your body volume is measured and a formula is used to measure
you body fat level.
Skinfold calipers: The skinfold calipers measurement is also
kown as Anthropometry. In this method, pressure is applied on
your skin and the underlying tissue using calipers.
Measurements are taken at various locations on the body and a
mathematical formula is used to find your body fat level.
There are also less scientific, but some would say plausible
way, to measure body fat. By seeing how your clothes fit every
week or two. If the clothes that normally fit perfectly are
slightly loose fitted after a week or two then it’s a sign that
you have lost some weight and possibly body fat. However, this
is not an accurate measure of fat loss because it could be
weight loss.
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