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What a Body Composition Screening Is — and What It Says About Your Health

A body composition test measures percentages of fat, bone, and muscle in the body. It can provide a snapshot of your overall health, inform strategies to improve health, and help gauge progress toward ...
Post-Bulletin

Searching for most accurate body fat test

If you want to know what you're made of, you'll need to be dunked in a tank of water, hooked up to electrodes, pinched or climb half naked into a giant egg like Lady Gaga at the Grammy Awards. In ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'Bod Pod' tells you how fat you really are

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. MINNEAPOLIS - I've seen some wild contraptions in my day, but the University of Minnesota might have the cutest. It has a "Bod ...
Everyday Health

What a Body Composition Screening Is — and What It Says About Your Health

There are various types of body composition tests (more on these below). Still, each one measures the percentages of fat and fat-free mass (muscle and bone) in the body. Knowing these percentages can ...