Calculate your body mass index (BMI)

[Abu Hannah]

Here is a useful tool to help you calculate your Body Mass Index. It tells you where you stand in terms of your weight.

http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmi-m.htm

 

[Der Fragende]

:salam2:

Because the BMI is dependent only upon weight and height, it makes simplistic assumptions about distribution of muscle and bone mass, and thus may overestimate adiposity on those with more lean body mass (e.g. athletes) while underestimating adiposity on those with less lean body mass (e.g. the elderly).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index

Another example would be powerlifters and strongmen.
Most of them weigh more than 100 kilo and they arent' tall, so if you want to know their BMI, they would seem very obese.

I heard that skinfold measurements allow a more precise result, but I am not sure.

So, I wouldn't trust much in these things.
But for a first assumption, it's okay.

 

[yakubpasha]

Here is a useful tool to help you calculate your Body Mass Index. It tells you where you stand in terms of your weight.

http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmi-m.htm

or buy the wii fit i use that for calculating my BMI

 

[Al-Kashmiri]

or buy the wii fit i use that for calculating my BMI

As-salaamu `alaykum.

Wiifit is useless for calculating BMI. It has the same flaws as the site. According to the Wiifit, I'm overweight, yet more than half the people who comment on me (the women of the family, who else?) say I'm too skinny lol.

 

[Asja]

:salam2:

I have calculate my BMI before(many times before)

Everyone who knows me say: "You are so skiny",and they usually ask "Are you on some kind of diet???But persnoally me,I think that I have normal weight,and that I am not too much skiny

But Alhamdulillah I always have usefull thougt on my mind,in heath body is health spirit.