Product Description Tanita Corporation manufacturersof the worlds best-selling Scale plus Body Fat Monitors introduce the new InnerScanBody Composition Monitors. InnerScan gives you greater control over monitoring andimproving your health and fitness - as well as essential information for staying healthyand living a more active vital life.
Amazon.com Product Description The Tanita BC550 InnerScan Body Composition Monitor provides information never before available from a consumer scale. Anyone who is serious about improving his or her total health and fitness will grow to love this monitor. The Tanita BC550 provides Bioelectric Impedance Analysis (BIA) to monitor multiple components of overall health.
The Tanita BC550 InnerScan delivers advanced body monitoring technology with a sleek, stylish design. View larger.
Comprehensive body monitors for total health and fitness.
The results are analyzed along with gender, age, height and weight for the most accurate and comprehensive at-home reading ever available. Other measurements include weight, body fat percentage, body water percentage, and bone mass.
Why You Should Monitor Body Water and Fat Percentage If you're like most people, you're not drinking enough water. If you wait until you feel thirsty, your body is already suffering from the effects of mild dehydration. You continually lose water during the day through sweat, urine and breathing. The amount varies due to several reasons, including your physical activity level, illness, medications, poor nutrition, or even climatic conditions. Monitoring your body water percentage allows you to quickly compensate if your levels are low, allowing your body to function more efficiently. Having the right amount of water in your body will not only make you feel healthier, but you'll also reduce your risk of developing serious health problems in the longer term.
High body fat levels can reduce your endurance and have been linked to heart disease cancer and diabetes. Tanita's body composition analyzers monitor your body fat and body water levels with BIA, the same advanced technology used by doctors. Foot pads send a low-level electrical signal. Then BIA measures the resistance to this signal as it travels through the body.
With the Tanita BC550 up to four unique users can benefit. Simply supply your gender, age, height and weight into the memory, step on the scale, and the monitor does the rest. The results are analyzed according to each user's information, and the result -- displayed in the monitor's easy-to-read 2.25-inch LCD screen -- is the one of the most comprehensive at-home readings you can get.
Operating on four AA batteries (included), the Tanita BC552 is intended for use by persons up to 330 pounds and is backed by Tanita's 10-year warranty.
Body fat percentages are important indicators of good health. View larger.
Note: Pregnant women should not use this monitor, and if you have a pacemaker or other internal electronic medical device, you should not use the body fat reading feature.
Customer Reviews: Very good scaleApril 30, 2008 Craig E. Slone 9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've owned this scale for about 3 years and have been very happy with it. There are 4 people in our family, so the memory buttons (there are 4 with 1 guest spot) make it very handy since each person's vital stats are recorded on the scale (i.e. male/female, age, activity level). I've noticed some reviews have negative comments about the consistency of the body fat readings, but this may be due to not following the instructions carefully? The instructions state that it is important to weigh yourself in consistent conditions each time to obtain the best results, i.e., I always weigh in the morning, with an empty bladder, etc. Also note that your state of hydration can make the body fat measurement vary widely because the scale is using electrical impedance (resistance) to measure body fat. A dehydrated body will have a different fat percentage reading than a hydrated body, all other things being equal. If you weigh immediately after intense exercise in hot weather, your dehydrated state will affect the body fat measurement. One additional note...I had my body fat measured in the immersion tank at the Cooper Institute in Dallas. Immersion is recognized as one of the most accurate measures of body fat available. Within an hour of the immersion test, I measured myself on the Tanita scale and found it was within 1% of the measurement I obtained at Cooper's clinic.
AMAZING INFORMATION FOR YOUR HEALTH !August 28, 2005 Gail Cooke(TX, USA) 17 out of 21 found this review helpful
It's incredible! About the only thing this mighty mite of a scale can't do is serve your morning coffee. If you're serious about maintaining or reaching an appropriate weight and taking good care of your health, this is a must-have.
Tanita Innerscan Body Composition Monitor is a long name - the short of it is this scale provides vital information about your body to you in your home. The Innerscan, Tanita's latest innovation, not only offers weight, body fat percentage and body water percentage, but also:
Daily caloric intake, that is the estimated number of calories that can be consumed within the next 24 hours in order to maintain your current weight.
Your metabolic age rating, meaning it compares your basal metabolic rate to the average age associated with that level of metabolism.
Visceral fat, the fat in your abdominal cavity surrounding vital organs.
Muscle mass, the weight of muscle in your body.
Bone mass or the weight of bone in your body.
All of this was absolutely amazing to me. The information is determined by the level of resistance, and the user's height, weight and gender. Even more amazing is the fact that the price of this scale is decidedly accessible.
Everyone knows the importance of drinking enough water. I thought I was until I saw my body water percentage. I immediately began drinking more water - it does make a difference. The scale has memory for four, so it can be used by an entire family.
Here's to good health!
- Gail Cooke
Overall a really good scale!January 16, 2010 Joseph Howdeshell 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Upon the reading of some reviews about this item, claiming that it had a lot of features, I was really excited to see what this scale could do. When I recieved this item, I was dissapointed to find that it didn't have all of the features that it claimed it did.
These are the only things that the scale does:
Weight: Whenever I weigh myself on this scale, it seems like it gives me a different weight every time, but this is only due to the fact that this scale is really sensitive (in a good way), and that I do it at differnt conditions (which the manual tells you not to). If I start weighing myself the way it says in the manual, I bet that the results will be consistent. As far as acuracy goes, this scale is deffinately accurate; this morning I put two of my mom's 8 pound dumbells on the scale and it said 16.0 lbs which means that it is accurate!
BIA: This feature tells you your body fat percentage by sending a small, harmless electric current through your feet. So far, it seems like this feature is the farthest from accurate. Considering that I haven't taken the readings under the same conditions every time, I am going to give the scale the benifit of the doubt and say that the innacurate readings are my fault.
Body Water: This feature will not work if you are under 18! This feature is a nice tool to have, but I am sad that it isn't able to work for me (I'm 16)!
Muscle Mass: This feature will not work if you are under 18! This is also a very nice thing to have, but once again I am dissapointed that it doesn't work on me!
Daily Calorie Intake: This feature will not work if you are under 18! If I am not mistaken, I think that this feature tells you how many calories you need to eat in a day to maintain your current weight. I am also sad that I can't use this feature!
Overall I am very pleased with this scale: it was cheap, and it is very accurate!
I would deffinately recommend it!
Doesn't give a consistent readingAugust 30, 2005 William Burney(Apex, NC) 17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I purchased this scale specifically for the ability to measure fat percentage. I realized after reading lots of reviews on the web that the fat percentage would not be too terribly accurate, but my hopes were that the delta of the fat percentage would be. In other words, I wasn't so concerned with the actual percentage, but how the percentage changed over time. As long as the scale was consistent, it would provide a good benchmark that my workouts and diet were working towards my goal. When I got the scale, I started weighing every day to track the readings to see how consistent they were. Basically, over the three weeks that I used the scale, my weight dropped 6 lbs. However, my fat percentage swung wildly over a percentage change of almost 7%. The change between two consecutive days may be as much as 3%. I am not sure if this is a flaw in the method used by the scale or if the variables that affect the technique used make it unreliable. Either way, in my opinion, this brings the other measurements on the scale into question except perhaps the actual weight measurement which did seem to closely follow the weight which appeared on my old analog scales day by day.
TEMPERAMENTAL SCALEDecember 17, 2005 James J. Gerchow 5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Had it in use for only 3 weeks! It suddendly started turning on & off for no apparent reason. It is now officially dead!
Quite displeasing as this is my second Tanita (first one lasted 10+ years). I'll post my venture with Customer Service...trust the novel will have a happy ending.
Jim
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Comprehensive body monitors for total health and fitness.
