Is a "Body Mass Index Chart" Your Most Important Weight Loss Tool?Instead of a Body Mass Index Chart, the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program is your most important tool in the fight against one of the major health concerns presently facing our society... Obesity. It is a word we hear more and more in the media ... a word we have heard more in the last twenty years than in the history of humanity. Why? Because it has become an epidemic in the Western world and has become a major fear in our lives. The media tells us that every major Western country in the world has an obesity rate of over 50% ... and climbing! And of even more concern is the fact that child obesity is on the rise. Obviously we are in major need of some obesity help ... and help is here in the form of the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program! It has become a major fear for the health conscious ... right up there with the major lifestyle diseases like Diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, and much, much more. And so it should because obesity increases the risk of many of these lifestyle diseases. And of course, obesity is not only a fear for the health conscious ... but also for those of us who are concerned with our looks and with aging before our time. Let's face it, we wouldn't be human if we didn't want to look our best. "How do you get back the feeling of control in your life? When you stop letting counting calories, starving yourself dieting, and uncontrollable food cravings run your life. Stop dieting, stop food cravings and take back control of your life! ... Let the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss program give you the obesity help you need!" Can a Body Mass Index Chart accurately predict obesity?There are many formulas and tables available such as a Body Mass Index Chart (BMI) and Insurance Tables of acceptable body weight ranges that can give you an approximate idea of whether or not you are obese, but these are not very exact. Why? Because a Body Mass Index Chart only uses height and overall weight as an indication of obesity. Body builders and extreme athletes can actually show up as being obese on a Body Mass Index Chart, which is obviously ridiculous! (These tables also don't work where child obesity is concerned.) The Tanita Body Fat Monitor / Scale is one of the easiest ways to find out exactly what your body fat % is and whether or not it constitutes obesity (and there are scales that are suitable for children and can accurately predict child obesity). Normal weight scales are fine if you are only interested in tracking your overall weight loss, but as we have seen, weight is made up of water, muscle, bones and fat and when we say we want to lose weight, what we really mean is we want to lose fat. This is the only way to be sure that our weight loss is healthy, as well as decreasing our risk of many lifestyle diseases. Our goal should not be so much to focus on low fat and low calorie dieting and trying to lose weight quickly as it should be to increase our body's fat burning capabilities and lose fat slowly and steadily and in the process, re-establish our body's natural state of health and fitness. How can we really know how much fat we are losing?...But how do we know how much fat we really have and how do we keep track of it to see if we really are losing fat or if it is muscle and water we are losing? That’s where the Tanita Body Fat Scale comes in. Unlike a Body Mass Index Chart, it is the perfect compliment to the "Diet Free ... At Last!" Weight Loss Program because it helps you to monitor your actual fat loss while following this healthy weight loss program, until you reach your ideal weight ... and then it continues to help you to maintain your ideal weight for life. There are many formulas available that approximate your body fat % (a Body Mass Index Chart doesn't even take your fat % into account!), however, these formulas are usually based on an estimation of energy required to fuel the needs of your lean body mass (or muscles). They usually use your height and weight to calculate your body's needs, however, people can be the same height and weight and yet have very different percentages of fat. This in turn can greatly impact on the calculation of the optimal daily caloric intake required to lose weight and fat. The
Tanita Body Fat Scale successfully monitors both your body fat and
your overall weight and is ideal for tracking your weight loss and fat loss and
making sure you are on track with your personal fitness goals.
The
Tanita Body Fat Scale is particularly ideal for personal use because
of its ease of use, inexpensiveness, high accuracy rate and the fact that it
can be used in the privacy of your own home without the need of very
expensive, specialized equipment and experienced technicians.
The following table can give you an idea if your percentage of body fat falls into the acceptable range or the obesity range. Of course, in order to ascertain what your body fat % is, you will need an accurate reliable method of calculating your body fat %. And, you guessed it, the best method of doing that is using the Tanita Body Fat Scale rather than a Body Mass Index Chart!
Click here to find out more about how Tanita Body Fat Scales are more accurate than a Body Mass Index Chart and can help overcome obesity...
   
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