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How can a scale measure body fat and water percentages, muscle and bone mass, BMI, BMR and A...

The scales have your Weight, Height, Age, and Sex, which is actually enough to approximate all the figures you've listed (+/- 4%), but in addition it takes a BIA (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis) rea …
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Body Composition Analyzer - How to calculate the fitness score?

You'll have to ask them, as it's calculated using their own proprietary algorithm, well that or spend a few min's solving the simultaneous equation (from the values in your history) to work out the we …
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How to calculate body fat using calipers?

There are numerous free app's around that will estimate and track body fat from a set of Skinfold measurements (an give you the formula), but if you want do do it the hard way there are hundreds of ac …
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Measurable body indicators for correct amount of nutrition?

I'd suggest you use one of the food diary app's / web sites to log your daily calorie and nutrient intakes, for example MyFitnessPal. They all offer an estimated TDEE (total daily energy expenditure = …
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Checking Body width

Simply record your natural waist, hips, and umbilicus circumferences along with your sagittal abdominal diameter each month, and graph the data.
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Measuring body fat with uneven upper/lower body proportions

A number of academic studies have tried to apportion / quantify the percentage of body fat by compartment (bit of the body), but they all appear to have a standard error in the order of +/- 4%. This e …
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Body Fat % Measuring Device

As BIA based scales / gadgets appear to be no more accurate than a number of the regression formula that have been developed over the years I'd suggest you simply start with a cheap "Body Fat Calliper …
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How to calculate the Ideal Weight?

Aesthetically there is no such thing, but a number of academics have proposed arbitrary formula that do incorporate those 3 variables: age, sex and height eg. J.D.Robinson (1983) S.B.Halls (2002) …
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