Instruction Manual (English)

Understanding the Graph Function

The Graph is best read and interpreted after a significant number of readings have been taken, with each of those readings being taken under consistent conditions and at regular intervals. We recommend that you take your body fat readings 30 or more times (for example, once every week over an eight month period) before studying the Graph (and/or this section of the manual).

The BF-572 tracks readings per use, rather than by date, and has the capacity to store up to 84 readings per preprogrammed Personal Key. If readings are taken weekly, the Graph would display any changes of an individual’s body fat percentage during a 20-month period.

Note: Graph does not display specific body fat readings. It displays the general trend over time.

Graph Explanation

 

 

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Most Recent

Current

Value of Vertical

 

 

Readings

Reading

Increments

Column A Yellow Section/Current Reading

The bar displayed in this section represents your current body fat percentage reading.

Columns B – E Light Blue Section

Column B: For this column, the unit calculates the average of the most recent readings (up to seven) and displays that average as a bar. The average is updated each time you take a body fat reading.

Column C: After every seventh reading, the average percentage that previously appeared in Column B shifts left to Column C.

Columns D and E: As with Column C, these columns contain the average from each previous column after that column reached its seventh reading.

Note: Depending on whether this average is higher, the same, or lower than the average of the previous column, the bar moves up to another level, stays at the same level, or moves down to another level. Over time, these bars create a line diagram.

Columns F and G Dark Blue Section

Each of the two bars in this section represents the average of the preceding 28 readings. The two bars represent a total of 56, and when added to the 28 readings in the Recent Results section, the total number of readings stored is 84.

After 84 Readings: The oldest set of 28 readings are deleted every time an additional set of 28 readings are stored.

Value of Vertical Increments

The Graph creates diagrams using three different Values of Vertical Increments, 0.2%, 0.5% and 1%, to accommodate the different levels of change within each individual’s body. If the Value of Vertical Increments displayed is 0.2%, each of the eight vertical increments in the corresponding Graph represents a 0.2% change in body fat.

1.

1.0 %

For example, Individual “1” has decreased his body fat percentage significantly (in this case, 7%) between Column G and Column A, so the resulting Value of Vertical Increments is at the highest num- ber, which is 1%.

2.

0.5 %

Another example shows Individual “2,” whose body fat percentage has decreased over time, but not at the same rate as Individual “1” as her body fat has decreased by 3.5%. The Graph may look the same but the Value of Vertical Increments is 0.5%, showing a rate of change which is half of that for Individual “1.”

3.

0.2 %

The body fat of Individual “3” has remained relatively consistent over time. His Graph is displayed at Value of Vertical Increments of 0.2%. Although the Graph may at first look erratic, the overall trend is uniform. His body fat has not changed more than 0.6% between one set of readings and the next (between Columns D and E); and between Column G and Column A, his body fat has changed only 0.2%.

4.

0.5 %

Our final example shows the readings of Individual “4.” Her Graph is at Value of Vertical Increment 0.5%. Her body fat has fluctuated over time, but the overall trend shows an increase in body fat, with a gain of 1% between Columns G and A.

Note: Fluctuations in body fat percentage may reflect inconsistency of readings, women’s menstrual cycles, or changes in hydration levels.

Tanita recommends that users look at the overall trend, rather than changes between readings.

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