By Grant Tinsley, Ph.D. Body fat percentage is one of the most frequently used body composition metrics. Many different techniques can provide you with an estimate of your body fat percentage. However, even after you’ve obtained your body fat percentage, you may still wonder how you interpret this value. What exactly does your body fat […]
How to Use Third-Party Testing to Inform Your Dietary Supplement Decisions
By Grant Tinsley, Ph.D. Many people interested in their health and fitness choose to consume dietary supplements. You may be one of them. (I am too!) However, even if you know the type of dietary supplement you want to take, it is often difficult to know which products are actually high quality. Plenty of companies […]
How to Track Your Body Composition At Home
By Grant Tinsley, Ph.D. Whether you’re trying to lose fat, gain muscle, or just stay healthy, it may help you to quantify how your body is changing over time. Many people weigh themselves using a simple scale. While this provides you with one potentially important piece of information, it does not tell you the whole […]
How Accurate is Your At-Home Body Fat Scale? Our New Research Study Can Tell You.
By Grant Tinsley, Ph.D. I am thrilled to share that my research team just published the results of our study evaluating the accuracy of 14 at-home body fat scales in the British Journal of Nutrition. While we hope the research article itself will be informative for researchers and practitioners, I also wanted to write this […]