Smart Scales and Body Composition Accuracy

Smart scales promise to tell you your body fat, muscle mass, and a dozen other numbers, but here is the honest truth, the weight is accurate and everything else is an estimate. That does not make them useless, it just means you should know which numbers to trust and which to take with a grain of salt.The weight reading on a good smart scale is as accurate as any bathroom scale, and the trend tracking, syncing to your phone and charting your weight over weeks, is genuinely useful, because the trend matters more than any single morning’s number. The body composition readings, body fat, muscle, water, are calculated by sending a tiny electrical signal through your body, and while that