How to Calculate Your Body Age

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Calculating your body age can be a way to learn whether or not you're living a healthy, more youthful life, but it is not an exact, scientifically accurate gauge and shouldn't replace professional diagnosis. It's easy to calculate your...
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Calculating your body age can be a way to learn whether or not you're living a healthy, more youthful life, but it is not an exact, scientifically accurate gauge and shouldn't replace professional diagnosis. It's easy to calculate your real age, also known as your "chronological age," but getting a number for your biological age involves going through a list of physical tests and assessing your current lifestyle. The number you get can tell you a lot about your health habits and can be helpful in figuring out how to make changes in your life, especially if you want your biological age to go down as your chronological age goes up!

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Testing Physical Conditioning

  1. Step 3 Test your strength...
    Test your strength. How strong are you? In general, people gain muscle up to the age of about 30. Afterwards, however, we start to slowly lose muscle mass and, hence, physical strength. People over 30 who are inactive can lose as much as 3% to 5% of their muscle mass per decade, and even the physically active lose some. This loss of muscle mass – called sarcopenia – means a loss of strength and mobility and, in the elderly, can increase the risk of frailty, falls, and bone fractures.[3] Test your own strength. Do as many modified push-ups (on your knees) as you can without stopping, keeping your body in a straight line and lowering your chest within four inches of the floor. Keep going until you can do no more.
    • Like flexibility, more strength is better. If you were able to do a high number of push-ups, you probably have a good deal of muscle mass and physical endurance.
    • Add 1 if you did less than 10 push-ups. Neither add nor subtract for 10-19. Subtract 1 if you did reached twenty push-ups. Subtract two for more than 30.
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Measuring Body Composition

  1. Step 3 Do a body fat analysis.
    The most accurate way to judge your body composition – more so than either hip-to-waist ratio or BMI – is by body fat analysis, and the most accurate way to do this is by bioelectrical impedance. During such a test, which you can do with a sports trainer, you will lay down and put two electrodes on your foot. Then, an electrical current will be sent through your body. This current is very small – you won't even feel it. The test will then provide an accurate readout of how much fat your body contains as opposed to lean tissues like muscle and bone, as well as how you compare on average to others.
    • To get a good reading you should not have exercised, used a sauna, or consumed alcohol in the previous hours. Women should have more body fat than men.
    • For women, neither add nor subtract if your percentage lies between 15%-24% and add .5 for 25%-33%. Add 1 if you are under %15 or over 33%.
    • For men, neither add nor subtract if your percentage lies between 6%-17% and add .5 for 18%-24%. Add 1 if you are under 6% or over 25%.
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Assessing Lifestyle

  1. Step 2 Own up to your vices.
    How much alcohol do you drink? While a moderate amount of alcohol is fine, perhaps even beneficial, too much can put you at risk of certain cancers, stroke, high blood pressure, liver disease, and pancreatitis. According to the Mayo Clinic, healthy drinking is no more than one drink per day for women of all ages and two per day for men 65 and younger, one for those over 65. A drink is measured differently for beer (12 fluid oz.), wine (5 oz.), and liquor (1.5 oz.).[6] What about smoking? Medical science is very clear on this: any smoking (even second hand) is harmful to your health. Indulging in smoking or too much alcohol will definitely elevate your biological age.
    • For alcohol, subtract 1 from your score if you don't drink. Subtract .5 if you stay within the daily recommended guidelines. Add 2 if you exceed the guidelines.
    • For smoking, subtract 3 from your score if you do not smoke and never have. Subtract 2 if you quit five or more years ago and 1 if you quit in the last four years. Add 3 if you currently smoke.
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Body Age Calculation Journal Entry

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