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The importance of a "BMI Scale"

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  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    Aren't you confusing BMI with body fat percentage? Your BMI doesn't tell you anything about how much fat, LBM or bone you have. It just looks at your height and weight.
  • jeffg1013
    jeffg1013 Posts: 12 Member
    servilia-

    You are correct - my bad! I meant body fat percentage, not "BMI". Thanks for pointing that out.

    However, I stand by my 'snake oil' assesment of the Tanita body fat scale. Those little foot electrode thingies do NOTHING to measure actual body fat percentage. If they did, I wouldn't be able to "fool" it by picking up a pair of dumbells and artificially increasing my weight reading. Afterall, my actual body fat percentage shouldn't have changed just because I'm holding a dumbell in each hand.
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    servilia-

    You are correct - my bad! I meant body fat percentage, not "BMI". Thanks for pointing that out.

    However, I stand by my 'snake oil' assesment of the Tanita body fat scale. Those little foot electrode thingies do NOTHING to measure actual body fat percentage. If they did, I wouldn't be able to "fool" it by picking up a pair of dumbells and artificially increasing my weight reading. Afterall, my actual body fat percentage shouldn't have changed just because I'm holding a dumbell in each hand.

    no I wasn't referring to you :) sorry - it was meant for the OP :)
  • jeffg1013
    jeffg1013 Posts: 12 Member
    servilia-

    You are correct - my bad! I meant body fat percentage, not "BMI". Thanks for pointing that out.

    However, I stand by my 'snake oil' assesment of the Tanita body fat scale. Those little foot electrode thingies do NOTHING to measure actual body fat percentage. If they did, I wouldn't be able to "fool" it by picking up a pair of dumbells and artificially increasing my weight reading. Afterall, my actual body fat percentage shouldn't have changed just because I'm holding a dumbell in each hand.

    no I wasn't referring to you :) sorry - it was meant for the OP :)

    No worries :-)
  • AZackery
    AZackery Posts: 2,035 Member
    I own a body fat scale and Omron body fat/bmi handheld monitor. Some scales you buy in the store gives you both your body fat percentage and bmi. Your bmi is simply a ratio between your height and weight. I can give you the formula to get your own bmi.

    All body fat percentage method has error. Bodpod, even dunk test aren't 100% accurate. Caliper testing isn't 100% accurate.

    I trust my scale and handheld monitor.
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