healthy living tips by Dr.Vina

The Omron HBF-400 Fat Loss Monitor with Scale is the perfect way to track your weight loss goals, thanks to its fast, accurate measurement of weight, body fat percentage, and body mass index (BMI). Just step on the HBF-400 and in seconds you'll have much of the information that's vital to any

Simple controls and a large, easy-to-read display make fat and weight monitoring a snap. View larger.

Just step on and see your data in seconds.

weight loss or weight maintenance program.

For the Whole Family
The HBF-400 supports up to four personal profiles, so each member of your family can track their own measurements independently. Plus, an easy-to-read and large digital display makes it a snap to get the information you need.

Detailed Measurement
The weight display measures weight up to 330 pounds in .2-pound increments, while body fat percentage can be measured from 5 to 60 percent in .1 percent increments.

One of the keys to weight loss and management is tracking your body mass index, or BMI. The HBF-400 rates your BMI from 7.0 to 90.0 in .1 increments. BMI is classified at three levels: underweight, normal, overweight, and obese.

Made for Just about Everyone
The HBF-400 is set up to provide measurements for folks of nearly all heights (3'4" to 6' 6-3/4") and nearly all ages (10 to 79 years). Measurements are customized for males and females, as well.

Power and Dimensions
The HBF-400 runs on four AA batteries, and you can expect about a year of battery life when the device is used four times a day. The unit measures 12.2 x 11.8 x 2.1 inches (L x W x H). The unit weighs 4.7 pounds.

What's in the Box
HBF-400 unit, 4 AA batteries, and instruction manual.

Product Features

More info on Omron HBF-400 Body Fat Monitor and Scale

Fat has been an increasingly bad quoted as the wrong food. Actually, a certain amount of fat is needed in the diet to help produce hormones and utilize the fat-soluble vitamins A,D, E and K.

When a woman is pregnant, her body stores fat in order to build up energy
reserves to support the unborn baby as it grows and to enable her to breast-feed
her baby adequately once it's born. Thus eating extremely low-fat diet may
jeopardize fat storage. It is wise to just keep your fat intake to 30% of your
daily calories. The right strategy is to eat more low-fat protein sources such
as vegetable protein, ease back on fried foods, take more carbohydrates and be
aware of fat content of the food you eat. In terms of fat, the table below lists
fats that you need to avoid or at least use sparingly:

The fat content in you diet has a lot to do with your blood cholesterol level and coronary artery disease. The real effect of fats into your body however is dependent on what type of fat you

consume.

People with high dietary intakes of saturated fats (as found in processed foods and fast foods) have an increased incidence of artery disease and cancer. On the other hand, ingesting the fats from fish is associated with a reduced incidence of coronary disease. These fats, known as omega-3 fatty acids, act as natural blood thinners, thus reducing the risk of heart disease and thrombotic stroke.

Amidst many diet recommendations, here are some practical
ones regarding healthy-fat intake:

• Consume mostly monounsaturated fats: snack more on nuts, use avocado as a spread or in guacamole, use olive oil or canola oil for cooking
  
• Eat fish on a regular basis, it contains load of artery-cleansing omega-3 fats
  
• Eat more soy food (tofu and tempeh) and used flaxseed to balance the level of friendly fats in your diet
  
• Limit your consumption of chocholate, beef and butter
  
• Choose margarines and spreads noted as trans-fat free on the foodlabel
  
• Consume less than 300 miligrams of cholesterol daily
  

Fat has had a bad reputation as far as a healthy diet is concerned. However this is not the entire story.

Some types of fat are in fact good for your heart!

To straighten things out, let me emphasize that there are in general to kind of fats:
saturated fat and unsaturated fat.
Saturated fat or solid fat is the bad guys, your heart would have a lot of problems with them. Unsaturated fats are heart-friendly and they clean your arteries and make your heart happy. There are three types of unsaturated fats:

• monounsaturated fat from certain vegetable oils

• polyunsaturated omega-6 fats from vegetable oils

• polyunsaturated omega-3 from fish and other seafood

To make things clearer, here are list
of our heart-friendly fats along with their sources: