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Friday, September 22, 2006

Famous BMI

In Malaysia, everyone in exposed to the big word in Fat Loss world. Its BMI! BMI is the magic formula to find out whether one is underweight, overweight or normal
It goes like this

(weight x weight) (in kilos) / height X height (in metres)
BMI over 27.3 for females and BMI over 27.8 for male is considered overweight.

GUESS WAT???
According the BFFM Tom Venuto & a whole lot of fitness expert:
(and i dun mean the fitness trainer we see in fitness first ya...nor the guy behind the GMC counter)

It's a useless indicator. Someone could have a "healthy" BMI of 19 to 20 and yet have a dangerously high level of body fat (a skinny fat person)

For Example a 105 pound woman with a 33% body fat. eew...
Compare her to a 200 pound man of 5" 8' with an atheletic body with six pack. He wud rate grossly overweight.

The thing is both lean mass (ur meat) , fat all have weight. There are plenty of skinny fat people out there. Are u one of them? Wanna know more?

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