BMI A Good Indicator Of One Major Risk For Heart Disease
The Risk Of Being Overweight
BMI Body Mass Index
The National Institutes of health created the following guidelines to determine the risks our body weight has on diseases. The risks are determined using a formula that measure a persons body fat based on his or her weight and height.
Overall the formula works well to indicate the general guidelines, but when measuring bodybuilders or athletes that they're muscle mass isn't proportionate to their heights another formula considering their body fat percentage has to be used.
You can get a general overview by calculating your BMI here
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Taking care of our health, keeping our weight and BMI under
control should be our number one priority.
Knowing that an increased BMI "Body Mass Index" increases
our risks for heart disease and many other disease should really
compel us to do something to decrease our body weight.
Remember what ever you do to increase your health and reduce your risks for diseases will benefit you, your kids, your family and friends. Just do it, you surely won't regret it.
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