By: Kerry Thomas | 2010-03-31 | Weight Loss The body mass index (BMI) is a standard formula used to compare your height to your weight. The reading allows you to determine what weight category your specific weight and height places you in. read more
By: | 2010-04-17 | Weight Loss What is BMI? The BMI or body mass index is a simple calculation from the height and weight which will determine if the person is of a healthy weight. read more
By: Tom Mitchell | 2010-03-26 | Weight Loss What, exactly, do you suppose is considered a healthy weight? To most experts, a healthy weight is really a range which relates statistically to overall good health. Being overweight or even obese is usually related statistically in many ways to many weight-related health issues. These kinds of weight-related health issues include such ailment as heart disease (very serious) and hypertension. Hypertension, if you did not know, is a synonym for another serious condition known as high blood pressure. read more
By: | 2010-04-14 | Health & Fitness Obesity is a sever health risk. The illness called 'early death' being a normal result. Another factor is where on your body the weight is, as fat is different depending on where the fat cells are. Check also with your doctor or a reputable gym on your body fat (depends on your body type). But here are some general guides. read more
By: Jens PeterJensen | 2011-03-28 | Health & Fitness By finding out how proportionate our bodies are, checking our weight against our height, we can determine whether we have weight issues we need to work on. Undergoing a routine bmi test can help us check whether we have weight problems that we need to focus on. read more
By: Dr Andrew Napier | 2010-10-21 | Weight Loss Body Mass Index is only around from the eighties, when it replaced the height-weight tables used for determining obesity. BMI is a tool that also uses someone's weight and height in order to find out if the weight is a normal one or if the person is obese or underweight. read more
By: evakeen | 2011-12-15 | Nutrition Though doctors spout it and researchers write it all the time, patients have a hard time figuring out what BMI means. read more
By: lorikennet | 2011-12-22 | Weight Loss Body mass index or simply BMI is utilized to show if someone is fat, overweight, normal or perhaps under a healthy weight. read more
By: Sivadi Kisho | 2010-03-30 | Health & Fitness Body Mass Index (BMI for short) is a way of evaluating someone's weight in relation to their height. The Body Mass Index is sometimes referred to as the Quetelet's index which is named after Belgian pioneer Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, who made the system during the nineteenth century. read more
By: Walter Chase | 2011-07-03 | Supplements If you have not heard, the Body Mass Index (BMI) is one of the means used by the medical profession to determine if a person's weight is correct for their height. But is it an accurate measurement? I say no and I will give you my reasons why people who are physically fit should not use this. read more
By: John Scott | 2010-10-22 | Weight Loss This article discusses Body Mass Index, which doctors use to diagnose obesity. A high BMI means careful diet, exercise, and perhaps medication like Meridia to reduce your weight for health. read more
By: Samantha Clemmons | 2010-03-30 | Exercise Body mass index is a very strong indicator of just what kind of shape your body is in. For simplicity's sake, a BMI of over 25 is considered overweight. read more
By: Kristie Chiles | 2010-03-26 | Weight Loss Adolphe Quetelet introduced the concept of BMI or the body mass index to the world in the 1830's. It is a tool which is commonly used to assess whether a person's weight is normal for his height or not. It has been in use for almost two centuries now and it is still very popular. read more
By: lorikennet | 2011-12-22 | Weight Loss Doctors and also other health professionals have been utilizing BMI to ascertain the health and fitness of an individual according to the level of his body fat. read more