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Tanita Health Care Products

Tanita are one of the world's leading health care product manufacturers, manufacturing health care products for both professional and home use.

Renowned for quality, accuracy and consistency, Tanita make an extensive range of home health care and monitoring products. Combining reliability with precision, style and ease of use, it is clear why they have become, and remained, one of the world's most trusted manufacturers.

Tanita Body Fat Monitors

Tanita invented the world's first stand-on Body Fat Monitor in 1991, and although their Bio Impedance Analysis (BIA) Body Fat Monitors are their signature product, they have developed many other complimentary products to the same high standards of quality.

Other Tanita Products

These products include bathroom scales, body composition monitors, water monitors and kitchen scales. As well as some great health care/fitness gadgets, including apedometer that will calorie count as you walk, another that will set your pace and a skipping rope that will calorie count as you skip.

Tanita Technology

The technology used on the home use monitors is based on the same advanced technology applied in Tanita's professional body composition analysers widely used by doctors, medical centres and by professional athletic teams, fitness clubs and personal trainers around the world.

Tanita uses strain gauge technology, an advanced weight measuring system that provides highly accurate readings. That means you get a more stable scale platform, and guarantees long-term, consistent accuracy.

Measuring Your Body Fat

As obesity poses many health risks, measuring your body fat to help keep within healthy ranges can greatly reduce the risk of conditions such as those listed above. Obesity is most commonly defined in terms of BMI (Body Mass Index). It is considered normal to have a BMI of 20-25. Above 25 is defined as overweight and above 30 is obese.

You can calculate your BMI easily by using this simple formula:

WEIGHT (KG)

HEIGHT (M) x HEIGHT (M)

There are a few different ways to measure your body fat percentage: from being immersed in a tank of water and measuring the displacement, to standing on a piece of equipment that resembles bathroom scales. Some simple ways to do it at home include ‘Waist – to – hip ratio’ and ‘Bioelectrical Impedance’.

Waist – to – Hip Ratio

Where fat is distributed on the body can be a good indicator of overweight/obesity. A lot of fat deposited in the abdominal area can put someone at increased risk of obesity related diseases.

To carry out this calculation, you need to measure (in cm or inches) your waist at the narrowest part – just above the navel. Make a note of the measurement then do the same around your hips at the widest possible part. Your waist to hip ratio is then determined by dividing the waist measurement by the hip measurement.

WAIST (cm/inches)

HIP (cm/inches)

For an average man, a ratio of 0.94 and above poses a health risk. The average woman – a ratio of 0.82 and above defines risk.

Note – If you want to be as accurate as possible, take 3 different measurements for each area. Use the smallest measurement of the three for your waist, and the largest for your hip.

Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis

This method measures body fat by sending a (safe) signal through the body. This signal passes freely through lean tissue such as muscle, but encounters resistance when passing through fatty tissue. This resistance is termed ‘bioelectrical impedance’.

This is the method used by most electrical body fat monitors. Looking a little like bathroom scales, the monitors use this reading in conjunction with other information, such as gender, height and weight, to calculate a body fat percentage.

Reducing the Risks

With all the risks associated with obesity and carrying too much body fat, it can be of great benefit to your health to maintain a healthy weight for your height, and stay within healthy BMI ranges. Keeping your body fat in check and ensuring your body composition is healthy can go a long way toward longevity and quality of life.