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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2001
Miyuki Shimomura, Tokyo, JP;
Tanita Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide an easy-understandable representation of fat tissue and lean tissue respectively occupying in a body constitution of a subject. Another object thereof is to help the subject determine which one of the fat tissue or the lean tissue is decreasing by weight reduction. A body type determination apparatus according to the present invention calculates an index of body fat mass, FMI (Fat Mass Index: fat mass/body height ), an index of lean mass, LMI (Lean Mass Index: lean mass/body height ), and a body build index, BMI (Body Mass Index: body weight/body height ) from entered body data and a measured bioelectric impedance, and further the apparatus displays a relationship between the BMI and the FMI and/or between the BMI and the LMI as a result of measurement by way of a graph and/or an illustration.