Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

Body mass index (BMI) estimates how healthy your weight is based on your height. There's no "perfect weight" that fits everyone, but BMI can help most adults understand their weight-related health ...

DO you really know if you are a healthy weight? Sure, you might not think you are fat but are those few extra pounds increasing your risk of health problems in the future? Knowing your BMI can help ...

Knowing is easy, and it's the first step in doing something about it Being overweight or obese is not a hopeless case — a healthier lifestyle requires personal, consistent resolve. Picture for ...

The body mass index, or BMI, predates the bathroom scale by more than half a century. But it has not changed with the times. The BMI was created in the 1830s before calculators and computers existed.

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Notes: This calculator is based on research data pulled together by a team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Using UN data on population size in 177 countries, ...