Body Composition:
One of the most powerful lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your risk to the common chronic diseases of aging such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, insulin insensitivity, type 2 diabetes, hormone imbalance and much more is to improve your body composition.
What do we mean by body composition? Generally speaking, body composition can be divided into two parts: body fat and lean body mass. Body fat is pretty simple to understand-it’s just fat. Lean body mass includes everything in your body except fat(i.e.muscle, bones, organs, other tissues, fluid, etc.). While a certain amout of fat is necessary for normal functioning, excess fat in relation to lean body mass can greatly increase your health risk. Perhaps one of the most powerful tools in controlling the aging process and restoring vitality is to improve your muscle to fat ratio by adding more muscle to your body.
Determination of body composition is becoming an integral part of health and nutritional assessment. Several methods are available that accurately estimate body composition and at NUTRIKON we use the BIO ELECTRICAL IMPEDENCE ANALYSIS(BIA). BIA is a simple , rapid, and accurate method of assessing body composition that uses electric signals at different frequencies, which are impeded variably by body, fat, and fat-free mass. This allows us to see what your body composition is so that we can recommend and design a program of balanced eating, regular exercise, stress reduction, and the use of correct supplements.
A healthy body composition program helps a person to weigh less and look thinner by causing excess fat to be lost and muscle to return.
