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The The Accu-Measure FitKid Caliper from AccuFitness is an easy-to-use, clinically accurate caliper specifically designed for use with children aged 6 to 17 years.

Extremely well designed and ideal for professional or personal use, the FitKid Caliper makes skin fold caliper testing simple with an audible click helping to ensure correct, consistent and repeatable measurements.

Periodic body fat testing is a great way of helping you evaluate your child’s health status. Studies have shown that children who carry excess body fat have a stronger tendency to be obese as adults, leading to a greater of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and an increased risk of diabetes.

Health and nutrition experts recommend teaching children about the benefits of physical exercise and nutrition and how these can aid in the achievement and maintenance of healthy body fat percentage. Changes in body fat as well as shape, especially in girls, occur normally during puberty and this should be conveyed to aging children.

The Accu-Measure FitKid Caliper includes details of the child-specific dual-site measurement protocol and guidelines for measuring body fat percentages in boys and girls aged 6 to 17 years.

Package Includes

• Directions on using the FitKid caliper
• Measurement tips to improve performance
• Pictures showing the appropriate measurement sites
• Pictures showing how to take appropriate measurements
• Measurement charts for boys and girls
• Ideas for a positive body fat experience with children
• Product Questions and Answers
• Body Fat Questions and Answers

Key Features

• Range: 0 - 60 mm
• Graduation: 2 mm
• “Click” ensures right pressure at measurement
• Easy to use and suitable for self measurement
• Clinically validated accuracy within 1.1% of hydrostatic weighing methods

This is an ex-demo product, but is still as new in original packaging