On Dec 5, 1:59*pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:

But the scale doesn't just measure fat or lean. *More's the pity.

Unless you really spoil yourself and get a scale that's capable of
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA). You can measure your percent
body fat to a reasonable degree of accuracy (I believe most are
accurate to within a tenth of a percent).

In particular, I have the Weight Watchers one made by Conair. I put
in my age, height, and athlete/non-athlete to the scale when I
purchased it, and now, I can get my weight, body fat %, water %
(really interesting feature, if not totally useless), and BMI (which
is just convenient. I calculate mine as a passing novelty, because I
know I'll never be at the 'perfect' BMI because of my frame size.)
In fact, it also does % Bone Mass, which I find fascinating. I'm not
really sure what procedure it's using or how accurate it is, but it's
interesting. It also tares itself every time you use it (you have to
tap it, wait for it to zero itself, THEN step on), which is helpful.

The scale cost ~$30 I think. I know the one I had before was
manufactured by Taylor USA, and cost me about $25. But it was a bit
of a piece of junk, and started showing overload errors (LOL) when I
would use it. So I RMA'd it and gave it to my parents to replace
their ancient spring/dial scale.