Why you should not rely on a standard formula for body mass index
Sport And Fitness / / December 19, 2019
Body mass index (BMI, BMI) is a way for many to determine whether or not they are thick. Surely you have heard from the athletes or those who lead a healthy lifestyle, interested in sports and lazy to keep an accurate account of all food eaten (BZHUK) that their BMI is 20%, but it needs to bring the cherished 10%. We want to say that we should not get hung up on the record, the formula for which was bred 200 years ago. He did not take into account the individual characteristics of the human body. ;)
The body mass index - a ratio of body weight in kilograms by the square of height in meters (kg / m2). The formula was derived Belgian mathematician Adolphe Kueteletom in 1832 and was then called index Kueteleta. 140 years later, it was renamed the Body Mass Index.
Distinguish between female and male type of obesity. Women suffer the buttocks and thighs - gynoid obesity. For men, characterized by excess weight in the body (especially the abdomen) - visceral (abdominal) obesity.
If, after the counting of your index was less than 18.5, then you have excessive thinness. People with a body mass index of 18.5 to 24.9 is considered normal. from 25 to 29.9 index indicates excess weight - I degree (overweight). Indicators of 30 to 34.9 indicates obesity (IIa degree) from 35 to 39.9 - severe obesity (IIb), is higher than 40 - pronounced or morbid obesity (III degree).
As we mentioned above, all people are individual and what your index was above 25, does not mean that you are fat. The video below demonstrates this perfectly! Video hero Body Mass Index - 25.7, but this man, even with a very big stretch of the imagination be called plump. ;)
If you want to know your true body mass index, refer to specialists, who will do it for you using more scientific methods. It is foolish to rely only on two parameters - the height and weight as the weight depends on many components.