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BMI or Body Mass
Indicator
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A
simple calculation of body weight to height for
healthy weight
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If you're going to get started
on losing weight, here is a good place to begin.
You can get some idea of just
where you stand at present and have a guide to your performance
as you go along.
BMI or Body Mass Indicator is the formulae
used to evaluate a person’s body weight relative to a persons
mass and therefore gives some idea of a person’s position on
weight
health.
Based on
Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator (license)
A result under 18.5 is
considered under
weight,
18.5 to
24.9 normal weight,
25 to 29.9 over
weight
and 30 or over
obese.
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BMI was invented around
1840 by Belgian Adolphe Quetetlet and
although a good guide, should only ever
be used as an average pointer of
healthy body weight and not as a
definitive health indicator as there is a
difference between muscle weight and body
fat weight that is unable to be allowed
for in a BMI
calculator.
For instance, an
athlete or bodybuilder having larger
muscle mass and less body fat may get
near the same figure as a rather
sedentary person carrying more body
fat.
Various anomalies in
BMI figures appear in results from
culture to culture.
The World health
Organisation guidelines recommend a lower
threshold starting figure for different
skeletal builds, South East Asians for
example, and expect to make further
changes to BMI thresholds after studies
of other body
types.
Factors not taken into
consideration in BMI calculations are
frame size and muscularity, bone and
cartilage. Also children’s figures are
not particularly realistic in some cases
as BMI calculations do not allow for
juvenile body
composition.
For
more information visit www.MiddleAgeWeightLossPrograms.com
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