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Body Fat Monitoring Is Inaccurate Science

Zach Lewis and ideastream's Rick Jackson discuss body fat results -
Tremendous fluctuation in results lead to the study. They talk of how disappointed people can be when they receive an unsatisfactory result, and what options there are for discovering actual numbers, and that there is no true "Gold Standard" for testing.

Rick Jackson is a senior host and producer at Ideastream Public Media. He hosts the "Sound of Ideas" on WKSU and "NewsDepth" on WVIZ.