BMI for women is similar to the BMI for men and teenagers. The formula used to calculate BMI for men is the same one used to calculate the BMI for women ; dividing the weight of the individual with the height. Interpretations for healthy and unhealthy indices are also the same. Though BMI for women does not take the fat in the body and measure it physically (this is impossible) research has proven it to be a reliable measure of how fat you are.
Origins of the BMI for Women and Men Scores
BMI for women and men were pioneered in 1800s by a scientist called Adolphe Quetelet and was initially named after him as the quetelet scale. He was conducting a social experiment on body image (these issues did not just crop up in recent
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