Know Your BMI

Know Your BMI is a Medhelp app. This is a must app for knowing your body mass index. It's a fun way to make sure you stay on track with proper dimensions. This app not only count and measure your bmi, but also motivates you to change your eating patterns and stay healthier. It lets you alert for the risk of obesity. The app interface is very pretty, cool and extremely simple to use. The results of bmi scoreboard indicator marked with smileys which symbolically describes to let you warn against possible threats against your health. Have innovative, inspiring and practical ideas for living a healthier life. We hope to give God thanks for what God first gave us. Even many medical conditions result from parts of our lives we might not consider medical in nature.

What is BMI?

Belgium Statistician Adolphe Quetelet developed the BMI formula, approximately 150 years ago. Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on your weight in relation to your height, and applies to most adult men and women aged 20 and over. For children aged 2 and over, BMI percentile is the best assessment of body fat. Just enter your weight and height using standard or metric measures and compute your index. BMI does not measure body fat directly. However, research indicates that BMI correlates to direct measures of body fat such as underwater weighing and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and is considered an inexpensive and easy-to-perform alternative for these.

Why measure BMI?

BMI is used as a screening tool to indicate whether a person is underweight, overweight, obese or a healthy weight for their height. If a person's BMI is out of the healthy BMI range, their health risks may increase significantly. BMI values are age-independent and the same for both genders. However, BMI may not correspond to the same degree of fatness in different populations due to different body proportions.

How to know the health risk?

The health risks associated with an increasing BMI are continuous, and the interpretation of BMI grading in relation to risk may differ for different populations. Excess weight increases how hard the heart has to work, it also raises blood pressure, blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels and lowers HDL (good) cholesterol levels. Excess weight can make a person more likely to develop diabetes.

Methods to measure BMI?

There are two ways to check your BMI:

1. Use our BMI calculators
2. Use the BMI chart.

Which Formula to measure BMI?

Body Mass Index is a simple and effective tool to determine whether or not your weight is a healthy one. The calculation of BMI is based on the following formulas:

1. Metric BMI Formula: Weight (kg) / Height (m)2

With the metric system, the formula for BMI is weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared (kg/m2). Since height is commonly measured in centimeters, divide height in centimeters by 100 to obtain height in meters.

2. Imperial BMI Formula: (Weight (lbs.) * 703) / Height (inches)2

When using pounds and inches, the formula needs to be altered slightly. Multiply your weight in pounds by 703. Divide that by your height in inches, squared.

How is BMI app used?

BMI is not accurate enough to be used as a diagnostic tool. However, it is used as a screening tool to identify potential weight problems in adults. With this app you will be able to calculate and know your exact bmi; which is useful in many ways. Like, a person may have a high BMI, yet to determine if this excess weight is a health risk, a health care provider would need to complete further assessments such as skinfold thickness measurements, evaluations of diet, physical activity and other appropriate health screenings.

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