On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Trish Tipton wrote: > Hi all,I had my body fat measured yesterday at a health fair. How > accurate are those things anyway? They took my weight, height, body > frame,gender, age, exercise frequency, intensity and duration, then put > this black disc thing on my bicep, after fingering it a bit, I guess to > separate muscle from fat???? while holding my arm at a 90* angel. Then > this small printer printed out my results. Said I was fair at 29.7% fat, > was low on body water content which was at 58%. said it should be at 70% > and my lean body mass was 127 and body fat in pounds was 43. She said I > need to be at around 25%. any takes on this? This was an electric impedance test. Like all BF tests, there is considerable variability, depending on the skill of the people using the instrument, etc. I have had this sort of test done, and got a number very close to my immersion and skinfold readings. It's probably a fair ballpark estimate. Todd Moody [log in to unmask]