What is BMI ?
Body Mass Index (BMI) - The BMI is the ratio of your weight to the square of your height.
The number is proportional to your body shape. Generally, the number is small for thin people and
large for fat people. People with a BMI 25 or greater are considered overweight, unless they
have a very muscular body. The BMI does not consider the fat/muscle ratio, and a healthy, muscular
individual with a low percentage of body fat may be classified obese using the BMI formula.
This is a well-known deficiency of the BMI formula.
If your BMI is 25 or greater, and your Waist-to-Height ratio
is less than 0.5 and your Percent Body Fat is in the "athlete" or "fitness" category,
you are probably muscular and not fat.
Typical body shape corresponding to the Body Mass Index
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