Body Mass Index (BMI) is an calculated measurement of a person’s weight relative to their height. This can be a little misleading sometimes because it doesn’t take into account for things like muscle mass.
Someone who can be extremely healthy with a good percentage of the total weight of muscle mass, can still could be considered as overweight.
How can this be?
When muscle mass, bone density or even the amount of water your body holds is not properly measured, it can really throw you off.
A better way would be to measure your body fat percentage instead. When done this way, you would know where you stand at when it comes to your health.
BMI may work for you so I won’t completely say it’s useless. You can go and get your BMI percentage but just don’t beat yourself up too much about it.
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