Easy To Read Large Digital Display
Weight Body Fat% and BMI In Seconds
4 Personal Profiles with Previous Measurements Results
1 Scale For The Whole Family
Weight Capacity Up To 330 lbs.
Batteries Included
Contents:
1 Fat Loss Monitor with scale
4 "AA" Batteries
1 Instruction Manual
Measure the result of your Weight Loss Program
Lose the "right" weight Fat not Muscle
What is most important about Weight?
It's very important to lose excess body fat as opposed to muscle mass. Lean muscle is needed for your body to function well... look your best and avoid health risks. The Omron Fat Loss Monitor with Scale gives you the ability to track the fat you are losing.
Accurate body fat calculations using Bioelectrical Impedance Technology
Body fat and muscle tissue have different levels of electrical conductivity. The Fat Loss Monitor with Scale sends a safe low-level electrical current through you body to calculate the amount of body fat tissue. This is known as the Bioelectrical Impedance (BI) Method. Your body fat percentage is automatically calculated using the body fat tissue amount you height weight age and gender information. Omron provides you with the accurate and reliable information you need to help measure your progress in achieving your health and fitness goals.
Model: HBF-400
Weight: 0 to 330lbs. with 0.2lb increments
Body fat percentage: 5.0 to 60.0% with 0.1% increments
BMI: 7.0 to 90.0 with 0.1 increments
Body fat percentage / BMI classification: - (Low) / 0 (Normal) / + (High) / ++ (Very High) with 12 levels of bar display
Set ranges:
Height: 3'4" to 6' 3/4"
Age: 10 to 80 years old
Gender: Male / Female
Power Supply: 4 AA batteries
Battery life: Approximately 1 year (when used four times a day)
Operating temperature and humidity: 50°F to 104°F 30% to 85% RH
Storage temperature and humidity: -4°F to 140°F 10% to 95% RH

• Provides accurate measurement of weight body fat percentage and body mass index (BMI)


• Supports up to four personal profiles so each member of your family can track their own measurements


• BMI classified at three levels: underweight normal overweight and obese


• Provides measurements for people of nearly all heights (3'4" to 6' 6-3/4") and nearly all ages (10 to 79 years)


• Measures 12.2 x 11.8 x 2.1 inches (L x W x H)

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Great Scale with Bonsuses

As a scale the Omron HBF-500 is excellent. It is consistent in tests with my wife and I (who are more than 100 pounds different in weight) the scale gave the same weight each of 5 times in a row that we stepped on it. So it is consistent. I am a nurse and weighed myself on our calibrated scales and found that this scale weighed me 0.5 pounds heavier than the hospital one which can be explained by the glass of water I drank when I got home. So it is both consistent and accurate.



So what about the body fat monitor: As to the accuracy of the monitor I cannot speak. However it is very consistent much more consistent than the experience that I have had with the handheld-only monitors from Omron. The scale will calculate your percent body fat & your percent skeletal muscle. It will also give you a reading of your visceral body fat which is a better indicator of your health risk associated with body fat (visceral body fat is the fat which is inside your body surrounding your organs which subcutaneous fat is the fat that we all see just under our skin). Using these calculations and the user-defined height weight and age data that you enter it will give you your resting metabolic energy needs for the day to give you an idea of how much you should be eating to lose weight in a healthy manner.



The scale has 4 user profiles so that 4 different users can use the scale and track their data. Data can be recalled letting you know what your measurements were yesterday a week ago a month ago and 3 months ago.



The handle fits well inside the front of the scale. I was expecting the scale to be bulkier than it is. It is just a little taller than a normal scale and very attractive. It isn't something that you're going to need to hide between uses. Just put it where any normal bathroom scale would fit.



The scale is a little bit difficult to use if you haven't read the instruction manual. The good news is that the manual is very easy to use and very informative. Plan on 5-10 minutes of reading time when your scale first arrives. You will be glad that you learned all about what your new scale does. After skimming the manual my wife and I are both able to operate the scale and use all of its functionality.



Price-wise this seems like an excellent value. The cost of a high-quality scale added to the price of a decent Body-fat monitor (which won't give you the more detailed body composition detail of this hands-and-feet monitor) will be more than the price of this one unit. Also this unit keeps all of your data in one location. So for the price this unit was a no-brainer for me when it was time to buy a new scale after my old one stopped being consistent and accurate.



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