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Withings Body Scan
4 metrics in Kaizora
Withings’ most complete scale, with a handle for segmental body composition and an ECG. Today Kaizora imports the same four values from it as from the simpler scales.
Who It’s For
For someone who wants Withings’ heart and segmental readings in its own app, and a weight and body composition history in Kaizora.
Where to Buy
United States
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Canada
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What It Measures in Kaizora
Weight, Fat Mass, Total Muscle Mass, and Bone Mineral Content (the scale’s estimate), from Withings’ export.
- Weight
- Body composition
How It Gets to Kaizora
A file import today: download your data from Withings and import the ZIP. A live connection that syncs every hour is coming, and it updates the same readings instead of adding them twice.
Strengths
- Measures through your hands as well as your feet, so its body composition covers your arms and torso, not only your legs.
- Records a six-lead ECG as you weigh yourself.
Limits
- Its ECG, segmental readings, and nerve health score aren’t imported.
- Body composition is still an estimate from an electric current, and shifts with hydration.
- Much of what sets it apart from cheaper scales stays in Withings’ app for now.
About What It Measures
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What's a Healthy Body Fat Percentage?
The ranges most often used for adults by sex and age, where they come from, why no guideline sets an official cut-off, and why the method you measure with changes the number.
Why Does Your Weight Change From Day to Day?
Water, glycogen, food in transit, weekends, and the menstrual cycle all move the scale. How big normal swings are, and how to read the trend underneath them.
Why Your Devices Disagree About Your Weight and Your Steps
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