Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
For more than 30 years we have been wedded to the BMI (body mass index) as the sole criterion for deciding whether someone is obese or not.
You?re judged to have a healthy weight if your BMI is between 18.5-24.9 for both men and women.
Your BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilos by your height squared (H x H) in metres.
It?s used by most health authorities to classify both adults and *children as overweight and obese in order to qualify for dieting advice, activity *programmes, even bariatric surgery and to assess the risk of diabetes.
And yet it?s imperfect. I?ve always thought it less than perfect because it only *measures weight, which is itself the sum of the weights of fat, yes, but also muscle, bone, blood, brain and all body fluids.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/whats-the-best-way-of-tracking-your-1384316
You?re judged to have a healthy weight if your BMI is between 18.5-24.9 for both men and women.
Your BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilos by your height squared (H x H) in metres.
It?s used by most health authorities to classify both adults and *children as overweight and obese in order to qualify for dieting advice, activity *programmes, even bariatric surgery and to assess the risk of diabetes.
And yet it?s imperfect. I?ve always thought it less than perfect because it only *measures weight, which is itself the sum of the weights of fat, yes, but also muscle, bone, blood, brain and all body fluids.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/whats-the-best-way-of-tracking-your-1384316