The Body Mass Index
“So what is a healthy weight? The weight tables used today are too one size fits all. Overweight, Healthy Weight, and Obesity can be defined by the Body Mass Index (BMI), calculated as weight in kilograms/height in meters squared. In the United States, the average adult man has a BMI of 26.6 and the average adult woman has a BMI of 26.5. Though BMI ranges are not exact ranges of healthy and unhealthy weight, studies have shown that health risk increases as BMI
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