A device is provided which is capable of determining an amount of exercise
involved in walking, as well as of obtaining quantitative information
about visceral fat in the abdominal part of a subject and which can be
used handily by being carried with the subject. The visceral fat
determining device with a step-counting function is configured as
follows. The visceral fat determining device has a step-counting means
for counting the number of steps involved in exercise such as walking
done by a subject and a main body shaped to be portable. When body data
of the subject such as the waist size of the subject is inputted to the
visceral fat determining device through a manipulation section, the
visceral fat determining device is capable of performing a computation of
the body data based on a predetermined computing formula for obtaining
quantitative information about the abdominal visceral fat of the subject.