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(More customer reviews)This wee unit is so delightfully tiny you can indeed stuff it into any of your pockets with room to spare. It's ergonomically, pleasingly shaped, allowing you to place two thumb pads upon it and--within mere seconds--receive a body-fat-percentage reading (shown on its highly legible, LCD display). It even flashes a cute little humanoid icon to classify your condition as underweight, healthy, slightly overweight, overweight, or obese. It has eight user memories. It's easy to input a user's weight, height, age, and gender for any of those memories. Its instruction manual comprises ten well-written and profusely illustrated pages, including a little "body fat recommendation" chart. Its price is dirt-cheap. It bears the well-known "Taylor" logo. Its long-life, lithium battery comes pre-installed and is user-replaceable.
The overall, concept, then, is consummately superb. And--best of all--its body-fat readings are said to be accurate to within 0.1%.
Alas (having now used this unit myself), I simply do not believe the latter claim. I seriously doubt that it renders an ACCURATE body-fat reading, nor am I confident that it's even remotely CLOSE to accurate.
Several months ago I purchased yet another Taylor product that purportedly provides an "accurate" body-fat reading. I refer to the Taylor model 5563 "body fat scale", which I happened to buy from my neighborhood (Kansas City area) Wal-Mart store for under $39 but which you MIGHT likewise be able to find via on-line vendors. (As of this writing, it's not shown at Wal-Mart's web site but is shown at the manufacturer's own site.) This latter Taylor product gives me radically different body-fat results than those via Taylor's above, handheld product. Case in point, whereas the above, handheld product reports my body-fat as being 19% (or sometimes marginally less than that), my Taylor model 5563 SCALE reports my body-fat as being "11.5% to 13.5%". (Note:it is widely understood that, depending on such factors as time of day, recent water intake, amount of clothing worn, etc., your body-fat readings--even via the most accurate devices--will vary within a small range).
Now, given that I'm a 51-year-old male, my height is 6'1", my weight is only about 154 pounds, and I now weigh far less than I did in my very early teens (in fact, I've become fully, conspicuously slender since having adopted Barry Sears' "Zone" diet several months ago), I tend to believe that my Taylor model 5563 body fat SCALE is, at least, far closer to "accurate" than is the above Taylor HANDHELD device. And, given the virtual impossibility of reliably measuring YOURSELF with traditional CALIPERS (I do also happen to own the latter, and, yes, I have TRIED), and given that (according to some "experts" I've read) even those traditional calipers are by no means absolutely, reliably accurate anyway, well, I currently figure to "trust" (?!) that the readings via my aforementioned Taylor 5563 "body fat scale" are, at least, "reasonably" accurate (i.e., probably/hopefully within a range no greater than about 1% or 2%) and definitely useful for, at very least, monitoring one's body-fat TRENDS from week to week.
(Sigh.) Mind you, when I tentatively bought the above Taylor HANDHELD product (coveting its obvious portability), I had extreme skepticism regarding its claims regarding accuracy, given its low price. Still, I just had to give it the proverbial shot, given all its other (above-detailed) virtues. Well, as usual, the consumer generally does get pretty much what he pays for. And in this particular instance, what you essentially get is a cool-looking--but evidently not greatly useful--TOY. Nothing less, but little more. In sum, if you want to give this tiny product a try yourself, be sure to retain the sales receipt to secure a hasty, subsequent refund. That's MY current intention.
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Product Description:
The perfect travel companion.Quickly monitors your body fat in a convenient, hand held unit.Easier to pack than your body fat analyzer, the Taylor Hand Held body fat analyzer does the trick in about 10 seconds!Compact and portable - fits in a pocket, gym bag or purse -- the unit uses the BIA method to measure body fat - the most accurate method.Measures body fat to the 0.1%, up to 50%.8 users memories, and displays a unique health indicator to show the general body condition.Includes a long life lithium battery that is replaceable.
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