Home Body Fat Test

[pegkerr]

This is a very quick test which will give you a rough idea of what your percentage of body fat is. According to this test, my percentage is 27%, 39.7 Pounds of fat and 107.3 Pounds of lean (muscle, bone, body water), so I have a little way to go. Healthy ratio for a Caucasian woman is 22%, but the average American Caucasian woman is at 32%.

Comments

[aome.livejournal.com]

There's something wrong with the link, I think?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I fixed it.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

That was much more acurate for me (closer to my immersion weighing of a couple of years ago) then either calipers or those body-fat scales ever are. The latter tend to read me 5-8 points high.

[mereilin.livejournal.com]

Now I'm curious to have one of these immersion weighings done. I have trouble believing that my percentage is 25%. My calf is 14.5 inches, but that's a bulging muscle when I put my body weight on it. Not that I can say the same necessarily for my backside, but still.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

I'm curious as to why the percentages for the average American Caucasian woman and the "healthy" Caucasian woman are so different. Is the average American Caucasian woman unhealthy? Or is the average Caucasian woman outside of America that much healthier?