February 2, 2007
To Test for Body Fat: Ditch the Calipers and Just Lie Down
What it is: A system for measuring levels of body fat using a mat embedded with sensors that can assess the density of various parts of the body.
The market: Spending on equipment and testing that measures body-fat composition is hard to calculate. Products for measuring body-fat composition range from magnetic-resonance-imaging machines, which can cost up to $1-million, to displacement-measuring immersion tubs, at $2,000, to the $100 calipers used in skin-fold tests at many health
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