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BMI or Body Mass Indicator

A simple calculation of body weight to height for healthy weight

 

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.

Weight:


Height:



Your BMI is:

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.   

 

 

 

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.

 

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