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0 pointsnoja14y ago0 comments

My bathroom scales measure body fat, and they read 10% for me. A friend of mine's scales put him at 20%.

I don't look like him on the right, and my friend doesn't look like him on the left...

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Bathroom scales cannot reliably measure body fat % from what I know. They try to measure impedence and it is affected by many factors - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrical_impedance_analysi...

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