Since the beginning of my career I’ve emphasized the importance of paying attention to body composition over body weight alone. In most of my books I tend to base diet set up on body fat percentage as well as that determines a lot about someone’s physiology. But my numbers are generally based on older methods, primarily caliper measurement. And in that DEXA is becoming more common, I want to look at DEXA vs calipers for body composition measurement.
DEXA vs Calipers, etc.
One of the more recent approaches to measuring body composition is DEXA (Dual-Energy X-ray Absorbitometry) which does a full-body scan and can measure things like bone density (critical for women) and other tissues. And it gives what is proposed to be a more accurate estimate of BF% than older methods. It can even do something where it gives you one value for upper body and one for lower body.… Keep Reading