Body composition scans and bone mineral density scans are both performed using the same DEXA machine, but they answer very different questions. If you've come to this page, you are likely trying to understand what the difference is. A body composition scan measures how your body weight is distributed between fat, [...]
What does your belly say about you? Shakespeare once said “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. However true that may be, there’s nothing sweet about that extra abdominal fat you’re storing, despite the nickname you’ve so lovingly attached to it. Whether you have nicknamed your tummy fat as your food baby, [...]
Five Reasons Why You Need To Break Up With Your Scales For some people, the scales can be a helpful tool for tracking daily weight and adopting healthy behaviours that support weight loss. A recently published study suggests that combining daily weigh-ins with weight loss education may be vital to adopting weight control behaviours that [...]
BMI is as outdated as your Granny's favourite pair of underpants. But before we talk about why BMI (Body Mass Index) is an imprecise measure of how fat a person may be and an imperfect predictor of a person’s health risks, lets take a closer look at what your body weight is actually made up of. [...]
