Body fat doesn't vanish overnight and you may not see those small changes if you measure every day.

体脂不会一夜消失，还有你也许看不到那些微小的变化如果你每天测量。

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In 1996, WHO set up a global database on obesity and body mass index, the common measure of fatness.

1996年，世界卫生组织建立了一个肥胖和身体质量指数数据库，身体质量指数是衡量肥胖的通行标准。

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In one of the examples provided in, an earbud could include infrared photodetectors that would measure the user's body temperature, heat flux and heart rate.

专利中描述了实现这种技术的几种方案，其中一种方案使用红外光电探测器来测量人体的体温，心率以及发热量等数据。

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Rather than by forming an image or a picture you put electrodes on the surface of the body and measure the electrical potential as a function of position on the body.

它并不对人进行直接的造影,而是将电极放到身体表面,通过测量该位置电势能,表征该部位的生理状态

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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.

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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.

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