Tanita BC-533 InnerScan Body Composition Monitor

Tanita's revolutionary new InnerScan™ line provides information never before available from a consumer scale. Anyone who is serious about improving his or her total health and fitness will love InnerScan™. The monitors use Bioelectric Impedance Analysis (BIA) to monitor multiple components of overall health. The results are analyzed along with gender, age, height and weight for the most accurate and comprehensive at-home reading ever available.

This monitor, which is about the same size as a typical bathroom scale, is ideal for anyone who is serious about monitoring their health and fitness. Knowing your body fat percentage -- the amount of body fat as a proportion of your body weight -- is essential if you want to create a diet and exercise plan that helps reduce the risk of certain conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Body water percentage is the total amount of fluid in your body expressed as a percentage of your total weight. Maintaining a healthy body water percentage ensures that your body functions efficiently. The metabolic age level is related to your body's metabolic rate and helps you maintain the daily minimum level of energy or calories your body requires when resting or sleeping to function effectively. Even though your total body weight might not change drastically over time, your muscle mass and body fat levels may be changing. Keeping tabs on them can help you stay at a lower risk of certain diseases. And knowing your levels of visceral fat -- the fat in the abdominal cavity and surrounding the vital organs -- can help you keep heart disease and high blood pressure at bay, and may delay the onset of type two diabetes. In short, this monitor gives you essential information and greater control as you work to stay healthy and live a more active, vital life.

BC-533 Features Include:

Feature Descriptions:

1. Bone Mass – Indicating the weight of bone mineral in the body
2. Muscle Mass – Displays the amount of muscle in the body
3. Daily Caloric Intake
4. Metabolic Age Rating – The Basal Metabolic Rate starts to decrease after the age of 16/17 years old and the Metabolic Age Rating indicates what age level the users body is currently rated at. If the age indicated is higher than the users actual age, then the user needs to improve their Basal Metabolic Rate. Increasing exercise levels will build healthier muscle tissue which will burn more calories consequently improving the users metabolic age rating.
5. Visceral Fat – A measure of the fat that surrounds the vital organs in the trunk and stomach area of the body. High Visceral Fat levels increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Lowering Visceral Fat levels can stabilise insulin action substantially reducing the risk of diabetes and other related illnesses.
6. Physique Rating – Offers the user the opportunity to set a desired Physique Rating from which the user can tailor their health/fitness programme accordingly. As a person increases their activity their weight may not change but the proportion of body fat to muscle may alter which changes the users overall physique and shape. The Physique Rating helps to accurately guide a user through their diet and fitness program.
7. Body Water % - Measures hydration levels in the body.

Other Features:

• Adult Mode
• Child Mode
• Athlete Mode
• Guest Mode – Allows a guest to check body fat and weight without storing personal data in the memory
• Total Body Water – estimates the % of water in your body
• Healthy Body Fat % Ranges – In built indicator compares body fat % reading to the body fat ranges chart according to age and gender (see chart below)
• 4 User Button Memories – Memory function allows for time saving personal data storage. Push button and Tanita’s patented toe tap memory keys store personal details for each individual so all so all they have to do is press their numbered key before stepping on
• Weight and Body Fat Recall – Displays current and previous weight and body fat readings
• Weight only function – Allows users to monitor weight alone without receiving a body fat reading
• Toughened safety glass
• Batteries Included

Specifications:

Capacity: 330 lb (150 kg)
Weight Increments: 0.2 lb (0.1 kg)
Body Fat Increments: 0.1 %
8 mm square glass platform
4 person memory