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Body Mass Tool

Don’t just trust your scale to tell you if you are too heavy. This tool uses not just what you weigh, but also how tall you are. The goal for most people is a score between 18 and 25.

How tall are you? What do you weigh?

Sources
Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. 1998. Accessed at: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Faith H M, Pietrobelli A. Resistance to change of adulthood body mass index. International Journal of Obesity Related Metabolic Disorders. 2002 Oct. Vol. 26 (10): 1404—5. PMID: 12355339 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE].

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