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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
Quetelet discovered in 1835 that a fairly accurate equation for the relationship of body mass to height was given by squaring the ratio of weight to ... were all men, and predominantly white.
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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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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 ...