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Body Mass Index

Body Mass Index

Healthcare professionals around the world often use Body Mass Index (BMI) when determining whether patients are underweight, healthy weight, overweight or clinically obese. People who are clinically obese have a greater risk of developing diabetes, stroke, some cancer, and cardiovascular diseases.

BMI has its drawbacks however. It does not take into account the patient's body fat content versus lean tissue (muscle) content. A 6 feet 2 inch athlete may have a higher BMI than a couch potato of the same height - but the couch potato may be overweight while the athlete is definitely not.

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      Ideal Body Weight for Women

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      To determine how much you should weigh (your ideal body weight) several factors should be considered, including age, muscle-fat ratio, height, sex, and bone density.

      Some health professionals suggest that calculating your Body Mass Index (BMI) is the best way to decide whether your body weight is ideal.

      Others say that BMI is faulty as it does not account for muscle mass and that waist-hip ratio is better       ...

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        Daily Obesity & Weight Loss News

        Earlier intervention leads to better weight recovery in children with multiple risk factors for weight faltering

        Earlier intervention leads to better weight recovery in children with multiple risk…

        Dec 11, 2015

        Young children who are underweight experienced greater weight recovery the earlier an intervention was started, and the recovery was more significant in children with multiple household risk factors, according to a study published this week in The Journal of Pediatrics.

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          David E. Conroy, Penn State professor of kinesiology, and colleagues looked at 145 years of data on professional baseball players’ body mass. The…