Calculate your BMI

Your Height:
The NHLBI obesity guidelines propose that doctors use body mass index (BMI) to assess patients because the index is simple, correlates to fatness, and applies to both men and women. To determine BMI, weight in kilograms is divided by height in meters, squared. To calculate your body mass index at this site, insert your weight in pounds and select your height. Then click on the Compute button to see your body mass index. A BMI of 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight and 30 or above is considered obese. To see the BMI scale in metric click on BMI in Kilos & Centimeters


Your Weight:

An Update by Ripskis:
Many are drawing erroneous and totally unwarranted conclusions from the Flagel et al. study that appeared in the April 20, 2005 issue of JAMA. The gold standard regard optimal BMI range is the one outlined in the 2001 Field et al. study of Harvard Medical School. It involved 121,701 nurses and 51,529 men. Their conclusion: "relationship between BMI and risk of developing chronic diseases was evident even among adults in the upper half of the healthy range (BMI of 22.0-24.9), suggesting that adults should try to maintain a BMI between 18.5 and 21.9 to minimize their risk of disease." Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 161, July 9, 2001, pp. 1581-6.

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