Vital Solutions MD offers the iDXA, a highly sophisticated instrument that "sees" through your body and measures three key components of your body structure (bone mass, lean tissue mass and fatty tissue mass). It will also give an invaluable assessment of your skeletal health. The iDXA is used extensively by the U.S. Olympic Training Staff and on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" program (Example of iDXA body scans ).
Standard body weight scales provide a measure of total weight, but don't determine the lean-to-fat ratio of that weight. Standing on most scales can tell you only if you weigh more than the average person, but not if that weight is fat or muscle. Based only on scale weight, a 250 pound athlete with 8% body fat may be considered "overweight" by a typical weight chart. Such charts are not a good indications of ideal body weight for general health or for athletic performance.
Here are some of the amazing body composition tracking features Vital Solutions MD can offer you with the iDXA.
Here are a few examples of real body scans of using the iDXA machine.