Our new DEXA service will be opening on 29 January to help you with your new year goals. We will be co-located with Target Nutrition and our team will be offering both DEXA and dietetic services. DEXA Body Composition Assessment Consults Dietitian Consults ​Initial consult and meal plan development - $110 Review Consult - $80 We offer one-on-one dietitian consultations where we will provide you with tailored, evidence-based dietary advice to suit your individual needs. gener

No one much likes talking about fat … but the truth is we ALL have some and we all need it to survive… it’s biology. And ladies (don’t shoot the messenger!), we need a little more. That’s because our bodies can do amazing and clever things that blokes can’t do… like grow little people inside us. Indulge us while we get a bit scientific for a moment… The truth about body fat Body fat can be divided into two categories: Essential fat and storage (non-essential) fat. As its name

We cover bone health in our consultations even though we know most of our clients want to skip over it to look at their body fat losses and lean muscle gains. But when we tell people that we ALL reach our peak bone density by the time we are 30 years old, they tend to pay a bit more attention. Monitoring your bone health is a big deal (especially for women). Osteoporosis is a significant problem but everyone agrees that prevention is much better than the cure. BMD for bone he

If you’re monitoring your percentage body fat and muscle mass, you are working hard to achieve some changes. You’ve been sweating and sacrificing to lose a few kilograms of fat or gain a few of muscle. So you don’t want a scan result that is accurate to within a few kilos… you want it down to the gram! No matter what anyone tells you, other tools to measure your fat and muscle like… · underwater weighing · Bodpod · bioelectrical impedance and · skinfold (calipers) … are only

DEXA is the ultimate body fat calculator and lean muscle monitor. It is literally x-ray vision for arse and your abs which lets you see what’s really happening with your body fat levels and muscle mass. You get a whole lot more information from your DEXA scan than just your body fat but we find the first thing most clients want to know is…. “So what’s my percentage body fat?” closely followed by “Is that good?” So let’s break that down. What’s good and what’s normal are of co

DEXA stands for dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. A DEXA scanner is an x-ray machine which was originally designed to assess bone health. Bone is one of the components of your body weight. Doctors have been using DEXA as a valuable and accurate tool to assess bone health and diagnose bone diseases like osteoporosis for many years. But more recently, DEXA has evolved to also measure the other components of your body weight (lean soft tissue and fat) and is now widely considere

Body composition, quite simply, is how your total weight is shared across the key elements that make up your body weight, which is basically your soft-tissues and bones. In more detail... Bones are pretty straight forward but for scientific purposes (and dietitians like us are fundamentally scientists), your soft tissue is broken up into: · Fat and · Everything else which we call fat free-mass. It is often referred to as lean soft tissue. This includes your muscles and all yo

“THERE IS NO PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTION THAT HOLDS A GREATER PROMISE OF IMPROVING HEALTH AND PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE IN THE ELDERLY THAN DOES EXERCISE” I am writing this post for the baby boomers, retirees, grey nomads, mums and dads, or grandmas and grandpas. Because if you think that body composition assessment is just for body builders, bootcampers and crossfitters… you are wrong. And if haven’t heard the word #sarcopenia, you are going to hear about it now! Sarcopenia Sa

We find most people come to see us for a DEXA scan for one of four main reasons… 1. They want to lose weight 2. They want to increase their muscle mass 3. They are on a maintenance training program or non-specific plan but keep pretty fit and active and want to check in on their baseline measurements 4. They haven’t been for a DEXA scan before and they want a baseline for their general health and well-being I have written four specific blog posts for each of these reasons (li

We LOVE a great body transformation… after all measuring transformations is what we do! But one of the reasons I took over at Physique Science and use DEXA with my clients was to help de-emphasise the focus on “weight loss”, and advocate for clients (and their health and fitness professionals) to look more closely at overall body composition as a more accurate measure of progress. About body weight In very broad terms, body weight is made up of fat mass and fat-free mass (whi