What you need is the scale that not only weighs you, it uses bio-electrical impedance to measure your body fat.
To perhaps the greatest amusement of outsiders, Arthur suggested that some players had unacceptably high numbers of skinfolds, a measure of body-fat percentage and indirectly of fitness.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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Wearable fitness devices are the current technology fad, with startups such as Jawbone and Fitbit, as well as larger companies like Nike and soon, reportedly, Apple, jumping in with devices to measure things like body movement and sleep.
Such a measure is more accurately described as a gentle tap on the body, but never on the face, making it more of a symbolic measure than a punitive one.
While there have been other patents awarded on treatment methods, Singer said, they require doctors to use a new method of diagnosis or a new method to measure some level in the body.
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The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
By controlling for individual and environmental influences on weight, such as income and health, they then measure whether food-price changes affect body-mass index (BMI).
The findings come from a study of nearly 1, 000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI) - a measure of obesity.
The nutritional condition of all the children in the study was also assessed, in the form of their body-mass indices (BMI), a measure of how much fat their bodies contained.
It came to be seen as a measure of how inflamed tissues all over the body are.
This week, Israel passed a law banning models from advertisements or fashion shows if they measure less than 18.5 on the body mass index (BMI).
Ranger IV was also equipped with a seismometer and radio transmitter, designed to be released in a small capsule from the rocket before impact and land on the Moon in sufficiently good condition to measure the frequency of natural earthquakes in the body of the Moon.
For example, patients can ingest smart pills that record body changes, indicate if a patient has taken medication, and measure the impact of medications.
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There was a measure to the man in the hooded coat, old stooped body, face framed in monkish cloth, a history, a faded drama.
Home testing uses fewer sensors typically a nose or mouth sensor to detect breathing, a finger clip to measure blood oxygen levels and a chest band to see if your body is trying to breathe.
The shameful situation in which the Senate of the United States -- long reputed to be the World's Greatest Deliberative Body -- is effectively denied the opportunity to debate and vote on a measure as important as the American Missile Protection Act of 1998 is most immediately the handiwork of Sen.
What they saw was a male-dominated legislative body going to great lengths to silence two women who dared speak in opposition to a measure that would limit access to our health care.
And even exposure data isn't a reliable measure because it can vary highly by such factors as age, gender, the body part exposed to radiation and the patient's size, says James A. Brink, chief radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-chairman of Image Wisely.
Even when we hear of the impact in Fiji, where within three years of the introduction of US-based television the Western ideal of beauty has caused bulimia in 15% of adolescent girls, and we glimpse a far more infectious and pernicious disease - body hatred - than the measles virus we exported to the colonies in Victorian times, we measure neither the cost to ourselves or to them.
He added that his body wishes to close parts of a stadium where "episodes of racism take place" before taking the more drastic measure of playing matches without fans should incidents persist.
In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, green tea extract increased energy expenditure, which is a measure of metabolism, plus it had a significant effect on fat oxidation, or how much fat your body burns.
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