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How to calculate Body Mass Index

The best way to calculate Body Mass Index is using this formula
BMI = weight (kilos)/ (height)2 metres2

for example:

weight = 45 kilos
height = 1,51 metres
So the BMI = 45 kg / (1,51)² = 19,7359765
After knowing your BMI, you can match it with BMI classification that stated by WHO in 2000.
Table: BMI classification (for Asian people)

There is one more thing to consider, that is fat accumulation. There are two kinds of fat accumulation, that is in lower part of the body and in abdominal part (abdominal obesity). Research found that there is connection between abdominal obesity and risk of heart disease.

If you want to know whether there is too many fat accumulation, use waist circumreference measurement. For Asian women, it is considered to have another disease if her waist is equal or greater than 80 cm, and for Asian men if his waist is equal or greater than 90 cm

How to maintain Body Mass Index

The best way to keep healthy is with maintaining your BMI (Body Mass Index). A Body that too thin can interfere hormonal action, in the other side too fat body can cause many other disease, such as gout, diabetes, heart disease.

After knowing your BMI from the calculation here, now it’s time to take the right step to keep healthy. If you are included in normal category, you better keep it stable. But if you are included in overweight, moreover obesity, you must do lose weight program. And you must start right now or it become too late.

Tips

There is many kind of food that you must increase and decrease its quality so you can maintain your weight. Here is the table: