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WHY IS WATER CONTENT SUCH AN IMPORTANT MEASURE ?
After oxygen, water is the most important of the nutritive elements the body requires to work
efficiently.
Water plays an essential role in almost all functions of the body and contributes notably to :
- Regulate temperature
- Carry nutrients
- Moisturize and purify the skin
- improve digestion
- Eliminate waste
- Lubricate joints
Every process in our body is due to water and most people do not drink water enough.
By keeping your body liquid level under control, you can react quickly to regulate fluids when
necessary.
MEASURING METHOD
The measuring method, accepted by scientists worldwide is called “Bioelectrical Impedance
Analyse.
With this method, a weak and imperceptible electric current (totally harmless for the human body*)
goes through the body.
The current, which has the capacity to circulate more easily through liquid in our muscles than
through fat, goes through the legs and allows to measure the body electric resistance.
This resistance depends on the quantity of water in the body (our muscles contain about 73%
water).
After measuring the electric resistance, this value can be used to calculate directly the muscular
mass of our lower limbs. Our gender and our height are taken into account to determine muscular
mass as a whole.
On the contrary, body fat acts as an insulating substance (it reduces the capacity of the current to
go through) and thus cannot be calculated directly.
It is more about determining indirectly the measured weight using the formula Fat mass = Body
weight = Muscular mass.
This method allows us to take the whole body fat into account.
The water content of the body is measured by the calculation of the 73% of the muscular mass.
*See warning at the beginning of the instructions.
Scale Size:
Features:
Technical Parameters:
• Unit of Measure: Kg/Lb/ST
• Capacity: 180 kg/ 400 Lb/ 28 st
Weight measurement only
The scale shows ”8888”
User’s manual
GB
Electronic bath scale
User’s manual
Electronic bath scale
GB
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