Subject: Re: Waist to height ratio

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:15:44 -0000

From: " Diane Walter " <dianepwalter@...>

Subject: Re: Waist to height ratio

> " Rodney " <perspect1111@y...> wrote:

> Yep! IMO, body fat percent is a much better measure of how much one

> has; what one has left to lose; lost; wish one could lose; or in a

> few cases, wish one hadn't lost.

>

> But it is a lot more difficult to measure accurately than WC/H!

I tried the link Tony suggested yesterday for estimating body fat:

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/diet.html

and found that its estimate of my body fat based on 3 simple

measurements was very close to the number measured for me last year

via the water immersion method.

Not to say that either of these methods is necessarily accurate, but

neither is WC/H accurately indicative of body fat!

Diane

--What a useful site. The BF measurement it yielded was within a percent of what

my Tanita claims.

Maco