Scales can be misleading as body weight is comprised of muscle, fat, and bone added all together. As part of your concierge membership, we provide the included service of performing a DEXA Body Composition scan to assess your health better.
During your concierge wellness exam, we are promoting preventative health for a better you! We work towards keeping you on track with your fitness and nutrition goals to maintain healthy proportions of body mass.
In addition to analyzing these results, the scan also provides an accurate depiction of your bone density. Your bone health is also essential in preventing bone loss through the years with the prevention of developing osteoporosis.
This image depicts a person as they age, remaining the same in weight and BMI , but their body fat percentage is increasing with time. As we age, the body tends to store more fat due to lowered metabolism and hormonal changes.
As you can see in the example, her Resting Metabolism decreases proportionally as her body fat percentage increases. One way to measure your health is by calculating your metabolic age. Your Basal Metabolic Rate is compared to your chronological age group to determine whether your metabolic age is lower or higher than your actual age.
On the other hand, if you are engaging in heavy resistance training and impact exercise while you also diet, much of your muscle and bone mass will be maintained. We need these muscles to lift heavy stuff! This can explain why some people hit a plateau when they diet: Muscle is metabolically active and contributes to daily caloric burn.
A good goal for fat loss is to maintain as much muscle mass as possible, which keeps your metabolism stoked. We are constantly told to lose weight, diet, and exercise. But rarely is it spelled out for us why or how it helps. Use this knowledge to dial in your goals, gain motivation, and reach the best version of you possible! This body fat analyzer gives users accurate body composition results in less than one minute.
The results show a report with measurements and healthy ranges for a quick assessment that can help them learn about their bodies and compare past results with present. Body Mass Index is an outdated method for getting a look into our health. It assesses health by comparing their weight to height. While it may be beneficial for identifying those at an increased health risk, it is only able to provide us with a very basic analysis of human health. While BMI is still a very common method used in clinical practice, it has limitations and is a poor tool for tracking weight change.
There is no way to identify if changes are occurring in the fat or muscles. Predicting health using this number ignores the important factors that contribute to overall positive health, which is why newer technologies are crucial. This is called Percent Body Fat. Doctors have been telling us for decades that too much fat is a serious health risk. A myriad of health problems associated with obesity. An important part of understanding health is differentiating between fat and muscle.
Being thin means weighing less than the recommended values. However, being lean means that you have a greater muscle mass. However, weight has a number of factors, which include fat-free mass.
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