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Find Out Where Your
Fat Is with New Scanner

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.

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