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Health Calculators
Body Mass Index
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Defining "Overweight" is a sensitive topic. This discussion
of obesity and body mass index is here to give you background information about
the Body mass index (BMI) levels that categorize fatness. But BMI can
potentially misclassify people as fat, even though their percentage of
body fat is not excessive. Therefore, trust your own judgment about your
own body because BMI-based body descriptions can be wrong.
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Here is the current standard definitions of overweight and obesity
used by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health
Organization (WHO).
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For adults, a body mass index of 25 or more is considered "overweight"
and a BMI of 30 or more is considered "obese".
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