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What is BMI?
Body mass index is a number indicates persons body fat calculated from person body
weight and height. Thought it does not directly measure the total body fat, it correlates
the body fat.
It is very inexpensive, convenient method for calculating the body fat.
The variations to the BMI number
1) It does not calculate based on sex, age, physical fitness.
For the same BMI woman compared to men have more body fat, older people compared
to young adults have more body fat.
2) Athletes might have high BMI not due to body fat but due to muscles.
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