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Body Mass Index
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Body mass index
, BMI, is the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the person's height in metres. Eg weight 75 kg and height 1.73 m gives 75/(1.73*1.73) equals 25. Excluding people training for sports or ill, for most adults a BMI between 20 and 25 is good, under 20 may be underweight and over 30 is tending...
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body mass index
a measure used to evaluate body weight relative to a person's height. BMI is used to find out if a person is underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. To find BMI: Multiply body weight in pounds by 703. Divide that number by height in inches. Divide that number by height in inches again. Fin...
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Body mass index
(BMI) A measure of healthy weight - the relationship between your height and your weight. Multiply your height by itself (in metres) to get your height squared. Then divide your weight (in kilograms) by your height squared. The result is your BMI. A healthy BMI is between 18 and 25.
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Body mass index
(BMI) An estimate of body composition based on height to weight ratio
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Body mass index
Body mass index: A key index for relating a person's body weight to their height. The body mass index (BMI) is a person's weight in kilograms (kg) divided by their height in meters (m) squared. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) now defines normal weight, overweight, and obesity according to th...
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body mass index
One of the anthropometric measures of body mass; it has the highest correlation with skinfold thickness or body density. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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body mass index
(BMI) the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters, a measure of body fat that gives an indication of nutritional status.
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body mass index
(from the article `Fashions`) ...later died from heart failure. News emerged that she had fasted to lose weight as she readied for the show. As a result, coordinators of Madrid`s ... Height-weight tables as a reference for healthy weights have been supplanted by the parameter known as the body mass ...
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Body mass index
Mathematician Keith Devlin and a restaurant industry association The Center for Consumer Freedom argue that the error in the BMI is significant and so pervasive that it is not generally useful in evaluation of health. University of Chicago political science professor Eric Oliver says BMI is a conve...
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Body mass index
A measure of weight relative to height to determine if a person is overweight. (Read about 'BMI')
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Body Mass Index
A measurement of body fat based on an individual's height and weight. BMI classifications include: Underweight (30). Synonym(s): BMI
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Body Mass Index
(BMI) - A calculation used by researchers and physicians to estimate the ratio of your body weight to your height, thereby estimating the degree by which you are overweight or underweight and therefore the fat load on your body.
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body mass index
(BMI) Type: Term Definitions: 1. an anthropometric measure of body mass, defined as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared; a method of determining caloric nutritional status.
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body mass index
A measure that relates body weight to height. BMI is sometimes used to measure total body fat and whether a person is a healthy weight. Excess body fat is linked to an increased risk of some diseases including heart disease and some cancers. Also called BMI.
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Body-mass index
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bodymassindex
1) A measure of obesity, it calculates a person's weight for their height
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