Reported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2006 97 million adults over the age of 20 were obese, and this doesn't even count for children! How do you know if you are medically overweight or obese? Doctors use a formula that takes both height and weight into consideration to come up with a standardized measurement known as body mass index, or BMI. The BMI is a reliable indirect way of measuring total body fat content. Here is a little calculator you can do by hand to figure out your BMI:
divide your weight by pounds by your height in inches squared multiple the result by 703
The BMI for people at a healthy weight usually falls between 18.5 and 24.9
A BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered over weight (which is not the
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