They measured height, weight and body mass index - calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
It also recently launched its Wi-Fi Smart Scale, which transmits your weight, body fat and body mass index to the cloud.
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Unfortunately, the recent Journal of the American Medical Association publication analyzing life expectancy correlations to one imperfect calculation of relative weight (BMI, the body mass index) distracts readers all-too-eager to cling to its implications that being chubby is actually better.
The study, by a joint team from the US National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado, classed normal weight as someone with a body mass index below 25, overweight over 25 but below 30, and obese as 30 and above.
Body Mass Index is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
My lean body mass index showed more fat than my weight suggested.
GPs will be advised to use the body mass index, where the person's weight in kilograms is divided by his height squared in metres, to get a reading.
Jackson won't reach her goal weight of 164 pounds -- a healthy body mass index for her 5-foot-8 frame -- by her birthday in February.
All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
The FDA approved Qsymia only for obese people or for overweight people with a body mass index greater than 27 who also suffer from weight-related conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
Jain also gets his patients to use a body weight tracker called BMI by NutriSystem to track their body mass index, since depression is a mind-body disorder.
The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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The studies measured the participants' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of their height and weight, but it wasn't able to take into account their body fat composition, or how much of their overall body weight was made up of fat versus muscle.
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The participants in each group lost a comparable amount of weight on average almost 10 pounds and saw similar decreases in body mass index and body fat.
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By controlling for individual and environmental influences on weight, such as income and health, they then measure whether food-price changes affect body-mass index (BMI).
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