How do you measure percent body fat?

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1. you can go to the local gym and ask them to measure your body fat. the way they do it is neither but putting bunch of electronic devices aroud ur body or by using the pincher at certain points in your body. you really cant measure it by yourself unless you have the fat pincher and know how to calculate it (which shouldnt be that hard by the way)
2. Body composition typically describes the molecular components that make up the entire the human body. Water makes up the vast majority of body composition (more than 60 percent of males and more than 50 percent of females). Fat (which varies between men and women) and protein (15 percent) make up the next great largest share, followed by minerals (5 percent). Traces of more than 100,000 chemical compounds comprise the remainder of the body’s composition. Experts divide body composition into two separate components: the fat component and the fat-free component. The fat component is made up of 80 percent adipose tissue and 20 percent water. The amount of fat varies significantly among individuals. In obese people, fat is sometimes the largest component of the body. Read on! http://healthysteps.health.ivillage.com/weightobesity/bodycomposition2.cfm