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Are you trying to lose weight? You need to know the amount of weight you need to lose. BMI is generally used to calculate the amount of extra belly you need to lose. Here is a new string method which ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) is widely used as an indicator of body fat content. Your weight alone is not sufficient to establish if you are in a healthy weight range. For example, a tall but slender person ...

The calculation of BMI (Body Mass Index) was invented by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian mathematician born in 1796. His proposal was that people’s weight could be deemed as relative to an ideal weight ...

EVERY DAY people are bombarded with the newest fad diets or the best workouts to burn calories. But if there’s one thing that’s sure to help you shift the pounds it’s knowing exactly how many calories ...

For more than 30 years we have been wedded to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the sole criterion for deciding whether someone is obese or not. It is used by most health authorities to classify both ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, is an index used to determine healthy body weight. But, calculating BMI involves a complex formula, and then charts or online calculators are needed to convert the BMI ...

DO you really know if you are a healthy weight? Sure, you might not think you are fat but are those few extra pounds increasing your risk of health problems in the future? Knowing your BMI can help ...

Public health authorities are forever telling us how much we should weigh, but one essential element is missing: shape. Let’s start with a little quiz. Below is a series of 3D laser scans of bodies, ...

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