A Tanita article saying their impedance weight scales for body fat, do work in children.
Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), and Bio-electrical impedance methods, using a Tanita body fat scale, had equivalent results in children, with no significant difference.
This study has a twin cousin, using the same data sample of children.
References
- http://www.tanita.com/professional/abstracts/abstract_main.html
- R Sung, P Lau, C Yu, P Lam, and E Nelson Measurement of body fat using leg to leg bioimpedance Arch Dis Child. Sep 2001; 85(3): 263–267.
Comments and Key points
Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), and Bio-electrical impedance methods, using a Tanita body fat scale, had equivalent results in children, with no significant difference.
Bio-electrical impedance methods, using a Tanita body fat scale, had equivalent results to Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), in elderly adults , with no significant difference.
Comments and Key points
Another simple and useful poster, presented at a scientific meeting, and reproduced on the Tanita Corporation website1. It demonstrates that Bio-Electrical Impedance measurements, made with inexpensive consumer-model body fat monitor scales, were able to measure a persons body fat percentage, during dieting.
Also of interest, is that after 16 weeks of "treatment" (diet and exercise presumably), they lost around 4% body fat.
Although their abstract doesn’t specifically mention it, they used a Tanita body fat monitor scale as their measuring instrument.
The leg-to-leg Bio-electrical impedance methods was superior to arm-to-leg methods. Using a Tanita body fat scale, gives equivalent results to Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), with no significant difference.
A few more references.
This one is an article with a review by me, lots of nice charts, and if I had a cute puppy to give away, you could have it.
