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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Is Your Body Weight Ideal?

Is Your Body Weight Ideal?
Many ways used by people to find their ideal weight. The most common way to do is reduce the height to 110. So, suppose you are 180 cm tall means your ideal weight is 70 kg.

Although this method is very easy, in fact this way is considered less accurate. WHO or the UN health agency suggested a way to determine your ideal weight based on BMI or Body Mass Index. And this is the guide:

If your BMI <18 you are too skinny If your BMI between 18.5-22.9 your ideal including If your BMI between 23.0-26.9 is overweight you are including If your BMI between 27.0-35 you including obese category If your BMI of> 35 you including morbid obesity category, which means to cause death.

Well, how to calculate your BMI?

Simple, all you have to do is divide your weight in kilograms by height in meters that quadratically.

Weight (kg) / (height (m) x height (m))

Let's say you weight 90kg and height 165 cm means your BMI is 90 / (1.65 x 1.65) = 33 means you are in the category of obesity.