Fitness Guide and Diet Tips

You want to diet because you are too big / heavy but do you really need? Do you know your ideal weight? Some people have a morphology as too slim is not necessarily good and may even be dangerous.

Here is a first tool to calculate your ideal weight. It is the BMI or Body Mass lndex

BMI allows you to assess your weight for your height. This simple tool applies to adults between 18 and 65. BMI gives you a number between 16 and 40 with a precise classification established by the World Health Organization.

- BMI less than 16: Underweight extreme
- BMI between 16 and 19: Underweight
- BMI between 20 and 25: normal Build
- BMI between 26 and 30: Overweight
- BMI between 31 and 35: Obese Class 1
- BMI between 36 and 40: Obese Class 2
- BMI greater than 40: Obese Class 3

To calculate your BMI is the formula:
BMI = weight in kg / (height in meters) 2

Example:
BMI = 70kg / 1752 = 22.86. This is a normal corpulence.

Or here is a tool for the automatic calculation: Calculate your BMI

To give you some figures, the adult obesity (BMI> 30) represents 16.9% of the French population is 1 French in 6 is obese. As for overweight, it affects nearly one third of the population.

Calculate the BMI can be an indication of a possible over-or underweight. This indicator gives the number of pounds to lose – or win – just to gain the weight and thus promote health. Caution, this tool is a simple indicator and is not complete. It does not take into account such muscle mass, body fat or bone. The morphology of a person is essential to know the weight he needs. The athletes for example, have a BMI over 25 without being obese because they have a larger muscle mass, affecting their weight.

The calculation of BMI was invented by doctors, including Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian scientist to diagnose objectively the health risks of overweight.

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