CES 2022: Withings Unveils New 'Body Scan' Smart Scale

[danny1305]

Does it upset me? Not at all. If it makes you feel better then do all the complaining you want.

It does, however, make no sense. I do not too much care for lasagna. I guess if you were me, you would stop in every Italian restaurant you drive by and announce to everyone that you do not like the food there.
Weird, but hey you do you

 

[4jasontv]

Weight is more than food choices. As you age your metabolism changes and what you eat today that keeps a static weight could well end up making you overweight if kept unchecked later on in life.

At 38 you’re at the time you do need to care about this.

My metabolism changed 10 years ago. Food quality & quantity is everything. You can't gain weight on a calorie deficit and you can't lose weight on a calorie surplus. It's not hard to figure out the movement to intake ratio if you apply some effort. The amount of misinformation on diets these days is incredible.

I don't need a scale to see if my belly is getting larger.

Headline: Between the ages of 20 and 60 we burn calories with the same efficiency.

Abstract: Total daily energy expenditure (“total expenditure”) reflects daily energy needs and is a critical variable in human health and physiology, but its trajectory over the life course is poorly studied. We analyzed a large, diverse database of total expenditure measured by the doubly labeled water method for males and females aged 8 days to 95 years. Total expenditure increased with fat-free mass in a power-law manner, with four distinct life stages. Fat-free mass–adjusted expenditure accelerates rapidly in neonates to ~50% above adult values at ~1 year; declines slowly to adult levels by ~20 years; remains stable in adulthood (20 to 60 years), even during pregnancy; then declines in older adults. These changes shed light on human development and aging and should help shape nutrition and health strategies across the life span.

Citation: Pontzer, H., Yamada, Y., Sagayama, H., Ainslie, P. N., Andersen, L. F., Anderson, L. J., ... & IAEA DLW Database Consortium §. (2021). Daily energy expenditure through the human life course. Science, 373(6556), 808-812.

Study: http://www.filehost.pt/5uC3D

Chronic weight gain is more likely to be associated with decreased activity than increased food consumption. Stress has been associated with increased eating but it's also associated with decreased exercise.

 

[JosephAW]

Been using the Body+ scale for a year, it’s a nice balance of features and price. Picked it up at Best Buy.
Also have their blood pressure arm cuff.
Nice thing about the Withings products as you can set it up for multiple users.
Their app works pretty good too.
Looking to get their new watch that just came out, many more days between charges than the Apple Watch.

 

[jooish]

Does it upset me? Not at all. If it makes you feel better then do all the complaining you want.

It does, however, make no sense. I do not too much care for lasagna. I guess if you were me, you would stop in every Italian restaurant you drive by and announce to everyone that you do not like the food there.
Weird, but hey you do you

I fired off an opinion. I did not complain about the product in the article. In fact, most other people are. You somehow got triggered by my statement and started complaining to me. Are you that ignorant of what you're doing or are you just desperate for engagement?

 

[44267547]

the best scale is the mirror and maybe $6 calipers to accurately measure bodyfat. those fat scales are never accurate

Actually, that’s incorrect. Body calipers are not as accurate, especially if the person using them is not trained properly. The problem with calipers, give improper readouts if you have someone who doesn’t understand the data. There are specific points of where you measure (I.e-Lower back, side-torso, thigh, ect.), how you measure and accurately reading the measurement. Seriously, even IFBB bodybuilders who have to rely on body fat ratios to qualify for a Pro-show, do not use calipers for this very reason.

If somebody wants an accurate, true to form of what their body fat ratio is, the most accurate with technology is through a DEXA scan. There’s loads of empirical research on calipers and DEXA scan‘s variances.

 

[PsykX]

the best scale is the mirror and maybe $6 calipers to accurately measure bodyfat. those fat scales are never accurate

Fat calipers have a higher risk of error, and are impractical to use.

I have a smart scale here since 2017 and prefer to use the fat % metric on the scale. At least I can take a measurement every day without doing anything more, it even plots a graph for me, and the error will always be the same.

What matters is not the number, it's the trend.

 

[danny842003]

I'm 38 and I've never bought a scale... I don't care about some arbitrary number that may fluctuate a little here and there.

I guess that's one of the many perks that come with not making terrible food choices.

Good food choices don’t make you a good person.

 

[dlondon]

The built in battery concerns me. I had the Body Cardio but the battery died at around a year and couldn't be replaced. This happened to numerous people (check their forums) and all they would offer is a small discount of a new device.

 

[Blowback]

Is this one of those devices that will phone home to the vendor (and other unknown parties) with your email address and personal biometric data?

Don’t know…which is why I’m reading the comments. I’ll stick with my 20$ scale which keeps all the info with ME! These info gathering/sucking companies crack me up.

 

[4jasontv]

Hi, BodyBuildingRumours.com. Just wondering if it’s safe to do a full body workout every other day? I’ll be at the gym 4 to 5 times a week, is that overtraining?

 

[ghanwani]

I just bought the best dumb scale out there. It weighs 2.4 lb (less than an MBA), uses AA batteries and does the job.

 

[Soylent Yellow]

I'm 38 and I've never bought a scale... I don't care about some arbitrary number that may fluctuate a little here and there.

I guess that's one of the many perks that come with not making terrible food choices.

It's one of the many perks of being under 40.

 

[macdos]

Hi, BodyBuildingRumours.com. Just wondering if it’s safe to do a full body workout every other day? I’ll be at the gym 4 to 5 times a week, is that overtraining?

You'd be surprised how much your body is capable of.

 

[macdos]

Weight is more than food choices. As you age your metabolism changes and what you eat today that keeps a static weight could well end up making you overweight if kept unchecked later on in life.

At 38 you’re at the time you do need to care about this.

Not really. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/surprising-findings-about-metabolism-and-age-202110082613

 

[macdos]

So you don’t care about scales, but you willingly clicked on an article about a scale to tell us that you don’t like scales? Lol ok. Cool story bro

I can dig it. It's curiosity about the morbid trend of constantly monitoring your vital stats. No healthy person does that.

As Americans invest in ever more such devices, and as they spend ever more time in the gym, they just become fatter and fatter…

You guys need to change your diet. Stop eating sugary carbs, skip breakfast and lunch.

 

[Jamie0003]

I’ve been looking up the withings scales for a while. Is it worth the extra money for the Cardio or this new one if you have an Apple Watch, since it already does ECG and heart rate? I’m struggling to justify £130 for it let alone £300 but the base model is very reasonable especially when on sale.

 

[TwoBytes]

What interests me and I want to believe is how it defects body fat per body part. I don’t think it’s possible or accurate to detect day abs or arm fat / muscle mass with the handle. Calipers could do this but not holding onto a handle which doesn’t know your arm measurement for example.

 

[Deguello]

The fat mass thing looks interesting, but since you can’t spot reduce I’m not sure how valuable the information would be for me.

After I got tired of letting myself be super fat, I bought a $20 scale and $60 (?) fitness tracker and used them to track my weight and movement while I lost 125 pounds. I still have the scale (and, now, an Apple Watch) but since I’m solidly in the normal weight range for my height, the only thing that really matters at this point is how my clothes are fitting.

That said, if a $300 scale motivates someone to be healthier, it’s a bargain.

 

[purfledspruce]

You lost me at $300

They lost me at a subscription service

 

[purfledspruce]

View attachment 1938612What interests me and I want to believe is how it defects body fat per body part. I don’t think it’s possible or accurate to detect day abs or arm fat / muscle mass with the handle. Calipers could do this but not holding onto a handle which doesn’t know your arm measurement for example.

I think that knowing your height, age, and weight, combined with the electrical impedance, could do it. And the fat mass is valuable in that some people carry weight in their middle and others don’t, and the visceral fat is more dangerous. Knowing that you carry fat viscerally might motivate you to lose weight.

AND, perhaps eating differently will cause fat to be stored differently? Is sugar linked to visceral fat? I think most dieticians currently think so, but perhaps we don’t know enough yet to really say that.

 

[GadgetBen]

This sounds awesome. Will definitely be upgrading from my current model.

Apple take note, THIS is how to innovate and update your products.

 

[GadgetBen]

It's funny that everyone is scoffing at its price tag when this is indeed a device to assist in bettering your health.

And more innovative than anything Apple has released in years!

 

[orthorim]

This is for all who think that a box knows their health better than they do.

Unfortunately, there is no box for your lack of self awareness.

Scales have got to be one of the most useless items in existence; yet gullible humans keep jumping on them, thinking it means something. Look in a mirror - like what you see? Great. No? Change your diet first, then your exercise (it's 90% diet) - until you like what you see.

Your body is divine. Boxes don't know anything. Our modern science measures maybe 20, 30 body values? Maybe 100? Maybe 200 if you're an athlete? There's trillions of processes happening in the body, and there's only one thing in the world that can interpret that much data: You.

 

[Tony_YYZ]

I’m still looking for a scale that integrates with Apple Health natively. I haven’t purchased a “smart” scale yet because I don’t want any company having my data since all of the current offerings require you to sync to the respective apps before they will send the data to Apple Health.

 

[friedmud]

People scoffing at the $300 have never used a Withings scale… they are incredibly high quality and accurate. Im still using my original Body Composition one I bought 10 years ago.

These scales are an investment in your health and work VERY well.

The only reason I may not buy this one is that my original still works so well!