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FatPulse is maintained by an in-house editorial team that covers a body fat percentage calculator. The writing and the tool share the same maintainers.
Coverage sticks to Health Calculators. In practice it estimates body fat percentage from tape measurements using the US Navy method and from BMI, then places the result in a category and splits the reading into lean and fat mass. Typical runs through it include tracking a change in body composition over several months, comparing the tape and BMI estimates side by side and working out lean mass before starting a training plan.
Every article is re-read before it ships for two things — that the method holds up, and that it does not present itself as advice. Anything in a regulated area is confined to the calculation.
Corrections are applied to the page, not buried in an inbox. Errors can be reported to support@fatpulse.com, which goes to the people who wrote the piece.
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