Although the Body Mass Index (BMI) has traditionally been used as a definition of obesity worldwide, it has consistently been shown to be an outdated and irrelevant measurement.
BMI does not distinguish between fat mass and lean mass, meaning some individuals can have a normal or borderline overweight BMI score despite having excess body fat. Conversely, athletes or individuals with high muscle mass but healthy body fat levels may fall into a higher BMI category.
Alternative tools, such as the waist circumference-to-height ratio and waist circumference-to-hip ratio, can provide better insight into identifying and diagnosing obesity, as they more accurately reflect body fat distribution. The ideal method is Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA), which evaluates and tracks body composition, thereby monitoring health.
For some individuals, the number of kilograms lost is significant, while for others, the measure of success is the change in clothing size. Both of these indicators are important. However, understanding body composition plays a critical role in a holistic approach to treatment.
What is body composition?
InBody Dial
Tracking your progress with a normal weight scale is limited. What really matters is body composition. Increasing muscle and losing fat makes your body slimmer, metabolically active and healthy. The InBody Dial changes the paradigm of a normal weight scale, starting form percent body fat, muscle mass, BMI to visceral fat level.
PBF Percent Body Fat
SMM Skeletal Muscle Mass
BMR Basal Metabolic Rate
FVL Visceral Fat Level
BMI Body Mass Index
Revolutionising BIA Technology with InBody
InBody's medical-grade body composition analysers rely on four pillars of technology to give you extremely accurate and precise BIA results that are highly correlated to gold-standard methods.
