yikes

I bought a Taylor Body Fat Monitor scale yesterday. The scale supposedly reads your weight and using an electrical pulse, it's also able to measure your percentage of body fat to within 1% of "professional body fat assesment methods."

The first time I stepped on it, I nearly freaked out. Despite working out for over a year, it said that my body fat content was absurdly high. Then I started to do some research and found out that many of these scales were up to 28% off in its ability to accurately determine your body fat content. Though the article did say that the particular one I bought was one of the more accurate ones.

On a funny note, one of my friends mentioned a rumor that some people were actually suing the companies that manufacture these body fat monitoring scales. Apparently it drove some people anorexic because it misread their body fat and they sued because they thought they were abnormally fat. I tried to do a quick search on google to confirm this but couldn't find anything. Anyhow, if this story is true, it's quite halarious.