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Understanding Your BMI Ratio: What It Says About Your Health
Body mass index, or BMI, is computed by dividing your weight by your height (squared). It is generally used to help you ...
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Why You Should Ignore Your BMI and Focus on This Instead
Caroline Roberts writes articles and notifications for CNET. She studies English at Cal Poly ... accurate equation for the relationship of body mass to height was given by squaring the ratio of weight ...
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It is clear that over the past 100 years, men's average height and weight have increased twice as fast as women's
A study of height and weight for men and women going ... pointed out that 'to put this in perspective, the ratio of women who were taller than men was about one in four for people born in 1905 ...
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Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight Getty ... waist-to-hip ratio or waist-to-height ratio. There are also scans ...
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New obesity benchmark adds body fat, organ health to BMI
The body mass index (BMI), a weight-to-height ratio, has long been criticised as too simplistic, in part because it cannot distinguish between fat and muscle mass. Currently, anyone with a BMI of ...