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Find Out Where Your Fat Is with New Scanner
Reuters ^ | 9/4/03

Posted on 09/04/2003 9:21:39 AM PDT by truthandlife

You could soon go to the gym, step in front of a scanner and find out exactly where the fat needs to come off. All you have to do is stand still for 30 seconds as the machine measures your body fat. It will tell you where you need to lose weight and even suggest the best exercises.

The scanner works by simultaneously building up a 3-D image of the body while measuring the body's effect on an electromagnetic field.

"The smart thing is that we've put them in one machine," Henri Tapp at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, eastern England, told New Scientist magazine.

The scanner could also monitor fat development in children, pregnant women and patients recovering from injury. As it uses radio waves rather than X-rays, repeated use is quite safe.

It could also be used for preventive care as body shape is known to be a risk indicator for heart disease and diabetes.


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: fat; scanner

1 posted on 09/04/2003 9:21:40 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: truthandlife
I have one of these. It's called a "mirror."
2 posted on 09/04/2003 9:24:55 AM PDT by wizardoz (Paranoia. It's what's for dinner.)
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To: truthandlife; SpookBrat; Brad's Gramma; Fawnn
LOL...I don't need a fat scanner to determine where and what needs to come off.

Beneath this protective coating I have abs of steel!

3 posted on 09/04/2003 9:25:11 AM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: mrs tiggywinkle
ooops...

Beneath this protective GEL coating I have abs of steel.

4 posted on 09/04/2003 9:25:40 AM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: truthandlife
This thing won't detect fat on liberals unless it's powerful enough to scan through skulls.
5 posted on 09/04/2003 9:27:21 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: mrs tiggywinkle; Brad's Gramma
LOL...I don't need a fat scanner to determine where and what needs to come off.
Beneath this protective [GEL] coating I have abs of steel!


(I prefer to say I camouflage my assets. I've got it -- in there somewhere! I just don't feel comfy flaunting it.) ;)
6 posted on 09/04/2003 9:29:35 AM PDT by Fawnn (I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
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To: truthandlife
All the physical training experts I have ever known have stated clearly that spot-training fat away won't work. It's useless to have this machine recommend certain exercises to you -- if someone is trying to lose fat, they should walk, run or engage other cardiovascular activity several times a week for a half hour or so. Exercising certain body parts will not get the fat off those body parts.
7 posted on 09/04/2003 9:30:51 AM PDT by American Soldier
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To: wizardoz
I have one of these. It's called a "mirror."

LOL!

8 posted on 09/04/2003 9:35:23 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: American Soldier
”All the physical training experts I have ever known have stated clearly that spot-training fat away won't work.”

I can vouch for this from personal experience. The one thing that spot training will do though is increase muscle mass in the exercised area and make the fat less noticeable.

I eventually got rid of my love handles by reducing (not eliminating) carb intake and doing more cardio.

9 posted on 09/04/2003 9:37:38 AM PDT by SouthParkRepublican
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To: truthandlife
Or,,,you could look down.
10 posted on 09/04/2003 9:38:49 AM PDT by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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To: mrs tiggywinkle
Some guys have to make do with a six-pack, I have a pony keg!
11 posted on 09/04/2003 9:50:57 AM PDT by cryptical
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To: cryptical
Some guys have to make do with a six-pack, I have a pony keg!

And I've got a barrel! :~D

12 posted on 09/04/2003 9:56:47 AM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money (I’d quit my job and go on welfare tomorrow, except it would put me in a higher tax bracket!)
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To: mrs tiggywinkle
Beneath this protective coating I have abs of steel!

YEAH! ME TOO!!!!!!!!!

13 posted on 09/04/2003 10:14:22 AM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Have YOU had your Logan Fix today?)
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To: wizardoz
Yup, works for me too. That mirror shows me more than I want to see...after our son is born, the wifey and I are going to work on reducing our reflections. ;^)
14 posted on 09/04/2003 10:18:40 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Go Fast, Turn Left!)
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To: truthandlife
all I do is look down and see how much of my feet is visible. Glance to my side see if I could see my hips... Look over my shoulder and see if my bum is leaving any tracks in the asphalt
15 posted on 09/04/2003 10:21:06 AM PDT by cyborg (i'm half and half... me mum is a muggle and me dad is a witch)
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To: wizardoz
People who need a scanner to tell them where the fat is are not fat enough to worry about it!
16 posted on 09/04/2003 1:09:44 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: truthandlife
I do not have a gut problem.

When one has a good tool, one builds a shed over it.

17 posted on 09/04/2003 1:18:16 PM PDT by N. Theknow (A Rose by any other name would be Shoeless Joe Jackson)
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