Yes, so how do you measure body fat okay? How do you measure body fat?
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We're talking about how to measure body fat. How to measure body fat
How do you do that? Well, there are advanced methods and there are simple methods. You know I like
simplicity
simplicity. Yes. So, but I'll start with the advanced methods first.
The first advanced method is
MRI scan okay
MRI scan
which is
Some type of imaging. I don't know if you familiar with it. It's gotta be done in the hospital and of course
that means, it may require
Payment depending on where in the world you are
In UK it's free, but you're not gonna get that just because you want to measure body fat
We're not gonna do that for you in the hospital
Unless there are strong indications for doing that but usually when you do MRI scan for some other reasons
They'll see how much fat you've got there around your
organs
MRI is very good for what's called internal fat, the visceral fat
okay, and that visceral fat is very important because
Once you have a lot of visceral fat that leads to all sorts of problems, which I'm probably not going to discuss right now
So MRI scan is there. It's the first method. It's advanced and is
Expensive, especially if you live in a part of the way you have to pay for it and also it has a small
Risk of radiation. It's a very small one. It's not important, but it's still radiation anyway, so
But that's the most reliable method of actually measuring your body fat because it tells you
About the visceral fat as well as the subcutaneous fat. The fat you have underneath the skin all right, so that's MRI scan
It's not available for everyone so then you can probably put that in a corner
So what's the next best method?
You can use the the fat caliper
and essentially it's a little instrument. You place it picks up the skin and
Then you measure how much body fat you've got
And then you do whatever you're doing and then come back
maybe two weeks later and measure it again to see whether
the thickness is less than what it was the last time you measured it. So, it measures the fat on your tummy as well as
the fat anywhere
you know you just pick any part of your body. In particular, usually the tummy you measure it then it's going to give you the
reading in centimeters or millimeters
and then you do it about a week or two weeks apart and
Then you see what are you're making progress or not?
So that's that. So what's the 3rd method? Now, We're going down to simple methods down which I like okay simple methods
The 3rd one is
Measuring the fat around your tummy, so I just need to probably talk about this
I may need to adjust the camera down, so you can see what I'm talking about .So, yeah with this method
I had to lower the camera because I'm the only one operating. I'm a one-man team
So you got to forgive me for that?
So essentially you take a tape. The 3rd method is you actually using a tape tape measure the regular old, reliable tape
That's what you've got. You use that and you just wrap it around your abdominal circumference
Usually you have to have a reference point so that there is consistency
you have to have the reference point and that reference point is your
Belly button. You have to measure it you know around your belly button okay?
Of course I'm not going to take my clothes off
Otherwise I would have to actually demonstrate it for you
But essentially you just you know take your tape wrap it you know around your belly button area
And then you go ahead and you measure it okay, and then next time you come around
After you've done. Whatever you doing what about weight loss or fat loss strategies you're using
you go ahead and come back again, and then you measure and you see whether your
Your efforts are paying off
Yes
So the key points to method by three using the tape measure is that you have to use a fixed point
the fixed point the belly button
That's your fixed point is your reference point because you need that consistency. You see, once you do that
You''re going to get reliable readings, and you
Can actually monitor your progress.
Okay, so that's method #3. Method #4 is the electronic weighing scale that shows you your body fat percentage
When you step on it, okay now?
I'm going to be doing a demonstration of that for you
And that's what's up next. A very simple way of monitoring your body fat percentage is
Using an electronic weighing scale that displays all of the parameters including body fat percentage
This one I've got in front of me here. This is your Ozeri brand
There are others that you can you can purchase from Amazon and any other shop
But this is the one I use and with this one you can create profiles for all members of your family
So my profile would be P1. That's Profile 1 for me. My daughter will be P2.
My wife will be P3
My son will be P4 and my other son P5
So you can create a profile on it and every time you step on the scale, it will recognize
Who has stepped on it. It's funny.
You know if my daughter steps on it is going to show P2. Now when I step on it now it's gonna
show P1. P1 is profile 1, so let's go. Let me step on it
So as you can tell
It's reading, it's calculating
So profile one. My body fat percentage shown there. This is total body water. That's muscle
That's bone
Body fat percentage here, that's mine
There 17.4 and my weight is it's 84.5 kilograms
So it shows all of these parameters that is very very ideal to measure and monitor your body fat percentage
in your journey you know and I like it and
It's very affordable, and it's something that you can easily use
It's turned itself off there. So that's the the way it works, and it's a very simple tool. It works and
Anybody can use it
Yeah, so as you can tell that method #4 is mixing simplicity with technology, and it works
Okay, so I use that Ozeri scale and it helps me to monitor my body fat percentage
So in summary, the 4 Methods are MRI scan which is beyond the reach of a lot of people
And then of course you've got a body fat caliper, and that's method #2. Method #3
is using the regular reliable tape measure and
Method #4 is using the
Electronic weighing scale that shows you your body fat percentage. Okay, so that's it for this video. Don't forget to subscribe
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So that's it for today until next time. This is Dr Joe
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