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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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