2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Body mass index (BMI, BMI) for many is a way to determine whether they are fat or not. Surely you have heard more than once from athletes or those who lead a healthy lifestyle, are fond of sports and are not lazy to keep an accurate record of everything they eat (BZHUK) that their BMI is 20%, but it needs to be brought to the cherished 10%. We want to say that you should not dwell on the indicator, the formula for which was derived 200 years ago. It does not take into account the individual characteristics of the human body at all.;)
Body mass index is the ratio of body weight in kilograms to the square of height, expressed in meters (kg / m2). The formula was derived by the Belgian mathematician Adolphe Kuetelet in 1832 and was then called the Kuetelet index. After 140 years, it was renamed Body Mass Index.
Distinguish between female and male types of obesity. In women, the area of the buttocks and hips is affected - gynoid obesity. Men are characterized by excess weight in the trunk (especially the abdomen) - visceral (abdominal) obesity.
If, after the calculations, your index turned out to be less than 18.5, then you have excessive thinness. People with a body mass index of 18.5 to 24.9 are considered normal. An index from 25 to 29, 9 indicates overweight - I degree (overweight). Indicators from 30 to 34, 9 indicate obesity (IIa degree), from 35 to 39, 9 - severe obesity (IIb), above 40 - pronounced, or morbid, obesity (III degree).
As we said above, all people are individual and the fact that your index is above 25 does not mean at all that you are fat. The video below demonstrates this perfectly! The body mass index of the hero of the video is 25, 7, but this man, even with a very big stretch, cannot be called plump.;)
If you want to know your real body mass index, contact a specialist who will do it for you using more scientific methods. It is foolish to rely on only two parameters - height and weight, since weight depends on many components.
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