A quick question: How does one calculate their body fat? Is there a standard system used or a website that can be used to measure it?
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A quick question: How does one calculate their body fat? Is there a standard system used or a website that can be used to measure it?
Take care all.
Found this site off Google. Dunno how accurate it is though.
Thank you very much!
Hopefully I filled this survey out correctly.
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My university has a health clinic that will measure your body fat for free.
Do they give free cross country flights?
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Yes, if by free you mean not free.
btw, haven't seen you around in a while
Ah, I see.
I've been around, if by around you mean not so much. Things have been hectic lately but have calmed of late, so I can finally give my all here once again.
Take care all.
According to that, I only have 13.62% body fat. so, i dunno how accurate it is.Originally Posted by Miriel
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Body fat is measured by pinching your skin at specific points on your body with calipers that are designed just for this purpose. Health clinics or Fitness Centres can do this for you, but they are not free. A questionaire won't really give you an accurate measure because inches alone aren't everything. For example, <a href="http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/bfb">this questionaire</a> has me at 10% over what I was a couple of years ago when I had my body fat measured with calipers, and I don't see that as being possible.
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Maybe you should lay off the vareniki and sour cream, Leeza.
Eat less junk, do more exercise, drink water, not beer, and that should help.
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Never!Maybe you should lay off the vareniki and sour cream, Leeza.
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You could also develop an eating disorder, though it cannot be binge eating because that just wouldn't work.
Anyway skin callipers isn't the best way to measure body fat percentage, you want to be dunked in water and then they'll check your displacement et cetera which gives a better result.
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The water tank is the best way, but that is not something that any regular person could afford, I don't think, because it's offered only at certain Medical Institutes, as far as I know.
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Quite true
Or you could use those rubbish electric current ones that you get in cerals and stuff. I guess skin callipers are the best, they just don't work if you are really fat or really thin because either they do not makes ones big enough to pinch a fattie and they cannot grab any skin on a skeleton. For the average person they work quite well though
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