How does the Accu-Measure determine your total amount of body fat by measuring the suprailliac site?
Measuring the fat content at a particular site on your body to determine your total body fat is a matter of “sampling”. Just as a doctor can do a complete blood profile with a small sample of blood or political pollsters can predict how the entire country will vote based on a representative sample of voters, it is possible to determine total body fat from measuring the fat content at a representative site on the body. After using underwater weighing as the criterion to determine the total body fat on thousands of men and women, experts were then able to use skinfold calipers to determine particular “sample” sites where fat content correlated highest and was most representative of total body fat; the suprailliac being one of the top sites. Keep in mind that areas of the body which have the most fat aren’t necessarily the best sites to determine total body fat percentage.
