The Body Mass Index (BMI) equation, from which BMI is calculated, is the same for women as for men and teenagers. BMI is calculated using height and weight – gender doesn’t come into it. The formula is the same for men, women and children of all ethnicities, although in practice it is generally used for ...
Christine Bude wrote that it’s simple to increase fiber in the diet. What if unable to afford expensive processed foods that have been fiber fortified such as General Mills’ Fiber One? If a person can’t or won’t eat a cup and a half of beans a day then what other natural unprocessed foods are high ...
Every body is different. Knowing what your ideal body weight is is a great way to obtain maximum health and create a realistic guideline for what weight you should be for your body type. Knowing what a person SHOULD weigh is more detailed than just calculating a person’s height and comparing the height to a ...
Learning how to calculate your ideal weight is an important part of achieving total health. Very few people have a realistic sense of what their ideal weight really is from a health perspective. Most of us think of ideal weight based on things like how we want to look, or how we used to look, ...
Before you begin a new diet or exercise program, you should measure your body fat. Then you again need to measure body fat in set intervals to see if your new diet or exercise program is working. However, you may be wondering how to measure your body fat. There are many ways in which you ...
The body mass index is basically just a ratio of weight to height, taking into account the fact that taller people have more body mass than shorter people, and, therefore, they are going to weigh more. Athletes and muscular people will have a higher body mass index because bone and muscle are more dense than ...