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body fat
how can you figure out what percentage of your body is fat?
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The most accurate methods of calculating body fat are with caliper measurements or the water-displacement method. However, you have to have these done by a personal trainer or at a health clinic or gym.
You can use the BMI method, however, this is not a trustworthy method since it does not take in consideration how much muscle you have. Like one of the previous replies says, it does not work for athletic people.
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The only way I know of is this wicked precise, technologically-advanced scale the nutritionist at my school has.
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It's difficult to calculate on your own. Body Mass Index is far easier, and still very accurate unless you're very athletic (in which case your weight is highly unlikely to be a problem) or extremely obese (in which case you already know that you have a problem)
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Remember too, that your weight is NOT all that important. Being a little on the overweight side isn't always bad. Calculate my BMI, and you'd see I was overweight, but ask a random person what my weight is, and they always guess that I'm twenty pounds lighter. It's all in how you present yourself, dress, etc. Take care of yourself, but at the same time don't get too hung up on a number. That's all it is- a number :)
-LM
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If you visit health websites you can figure out this information.
Try going to www.am-i-fat.com
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It hard to tell but if you do research it will tell you want percentange of your body blood what percentage of your body is everything else and when your done minus that all from 100% and you will probaly get the percentage of your body fat.
Hope I helped
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