Overweight and Weight problems Chart Together With Your Health

Body Mass Index, or BMI, is one of the most commonly used measurements to determine if you’re obese, but the newest research says BMI may not be reliable. Dr. Holly Phillips talks about the latest data with the “CBS This Morning” co-hosts.

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Body mass index, or BMI as its frequently referred to, is a number that’s calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms, by your height in meters squared. Obviously, this isn’t a number that any of us can calculate in our heads, so you can go online, Google BMI calculator. You plug in your height and you plug in your weight and it’ll give you a number..
A healthy BMI is anywhere between 18 and 25. A BMI of 25 to 30 is considered overweight. Obesity starts at a BMI of 30. A BMI of 40 is considered morbidly obese or class III obesity. As your BMI increases, so do your risks of developing other illnesses that are associated with being overweight or obese, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, even infertility, and cancer..
So while BMI is a number that we use to help determine if a person is overweight or obese, it’s not perfect. For example, BMI can be wrong in somebody who has an excessive amount of lean body mass or muscle. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger back in his day, his BMI probably would have come out saying he was morbidly obese, when clearly that wasn’t the case..
Conversely, an older woman who may not appear obese, may actually in fact be so, because her fact content is actually greater. So her BMI may not come out to be a number that considers her obese, but she is still at the same health risks as somebody whose BMI is obese.

When it comes to checking your weight, the numbers on the scale are typically the ones people are most concerned about. But health experts say a person’s BMI and body fat percentage are also important to know..
Carrie Bloemers, a registered dietitian for Lee Memorial Health System, says body fat percentage tells how much fat is composed in your body. “I always encourage my patients to look more at your body fat percentage verses even being concerned about the BMI classification that they fall into.”.
A healthy body fat for women is between 13 and 31 percent. A healthy body fat for men is between 6 and 19 percent. The range accounts for differences in genetics and frame size. But health experts say just because a person has a healthy body fat, doesn’t mean they have a healthy BMI..
“BMI, the body mass index, is just a ratio of your height to weight. You can have a healthy body fat percentage, yet be classified in say the overweight category or even obese category. That’s because you may have a higher percentage of muscle mass and still a low percentage of body fat, yet weigh more so your ratio of height to weight puts you in a different category,” explained Bloemers..
She says a healthy BMI for both men and women is between 19 and 25. “An increased BMI does put you at risk for the chronic type of diseases like diabetes, like heart disease,” said Bloemers..
While monitoring your body fat is more important than monitoring your BMI, Bloemers says to be healthy, people should always have body fat. “If someone is underweight, with a low BMI or low body fat percentage it can translate into complications with immune system function, even additional heart issues as well.”.
She says staying active and eating healthier, smaller portions is important to maintaining a healthy BMI and keeping your body weight under control..
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Body mass index (BMI) was once the standard for calculating obesity; however, these days, it’s being called a misleading health measurement. In this report, Jeff Olsen speaks with a Mayo Clinic obesity researcher who says there’s a better way to calculate body fat risks, especially for people who don’t necessarily look unhealthy.

Doctors use body mass index as a general way to tell if you’re at a healthy body weight. But it doesn’t paint the whole picture. Family medicine physician Robert Bales, MD, explains the different factors that play into reaching and maintaining a healthy weight.

An bariatric dietitian explains the limitations of body mass index (BMI) in determining body fat composition. http://www.piedmont.org/livingbetter

The way we define obesity is flawed..
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The body mass index, better known as BMI, is a measure of obesity that has been in use for over 200 years. It was a formula created by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet. It takes your weight (sorry my fellow Americans, everyone else is on the metric system) in kilograms divides and divides it by height in meters squared. And from this you get a number that represent your total body mass relative to your height and weight. The ranges go from underweight to obese, and one decimal point can tip you in either direction. BMI has been used to study obesity in large populations, and for the most part it’s okay for those types of studies. However, when individual health is the topic at hand, using the body mass index can make judging a person’s health a little bit trickier..
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CDC’s BMI considerations for practitioners:
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/bmiforpactitioners.pdf.
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