Body Mass Index is a measure of body weight to the square of your height. A higher BMI indicates higher and unhealthy body fat, which may lead to various health problems. To determine your BMI, a ...
The body mass index, or BMI, predates the bathroom scale by more than half a century. But it has not changed with the times. The BMI was created in the 1830s before calculators and computers existed.
I have written about the use of Body Mass Index (BMI) in prior columns and the issues related to its actual applicability for ...
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What BMI does not tell you about your health
The reason BMI is not very usable for measuring an individuals health is that the BMI only takes a persons weight and height ...
New research points to a better way to measure obesity than body mass index. Body mass index was first developed in 1832 and has been the standard way to estimate a person’s body fat since the 1980s.
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