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2. BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're ... - AOL

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   Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your Body Mass Index to check if you are a healthy weight. But a new report suggests that BMI should no longer be used as a measure of an individual ...

3. Is BMI or Body Fat More Important? - AOL

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   BMI vs. Body Fat Percentage. BMI and body fat percentage are both ways of determining whether a person has a healthy weight or not. A high BMI can indicate a high body fat percentage, but it’s ...

4. This Stat Can Help You Tell If You're Actually Hitting Your ...

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   Another common body measurement tool is the body mass index (BMI), which makes its calculation from two factors: height and weight. It’s still widely used by the medical community to determine ...

5. Body mass index - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Relative weight based on mass and height Medical diagnostic method Body mass index (BMI) Chart showing body mass index (BMI) for a range of heights and weights in both metric and imperial. Colours indicate BMI categories defined by the World Health Organization ; underweight, normal ...

6. Body roundness index - Wikipedia

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   Compared to traditional metrics, such as the body mass index (BMI), (which uses weight and height), BRI may improve predictions of the amount of body fat and the volume of visceral adipose tissue. Despite its common use, BMI can misclassify individuals as obese because it does not distinguish between a person's lean body mass and fat mass ...

7. Weight management - Wikipedia

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   Body mass index (BMI) is a value used to get a general sense of a person's overall mass and is calculated using a person's height and weight. It is more often used than weight alone to determine if an individual is underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese.

8. Think You’re Healthy? Science Says This Is How You Should ...

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   BMI is generally classified into underweight, healthy weight, overweight, and obesity—although obesity is subdivided into three classes. BMI has received a lot of criticism over the past few years.

9. Corpulence index - Wikipedia

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   The corpulence index yields valid results even for very short and very tall persons, [7] which is a problem with BMI — for example, an ideal body weight for a person 152.4 cm tall (48 kg) will render BMI of 20.7 and CI of 13.6, while for a person 200 cm tall (99 kg), the BMI will be 24.8, very close to the "overweight" threshold of 25, while ...