What is BMI?
It stands for Body Mass Index and it determines someone’s health risk related to their weight. A BMI greater than 40 — or greater than 35 with associated medical problems — means you have clinically severe obesity which is associated with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heartburn, gallstones, arthritis, urinary stress incontinence, infertility, and some types of cancer.
Body mass index (BMI) is a good indicator of person’s nutritional status &it is related to propensity to disease other than your weight. You can measure your bmi by dividing your weight (in k.g.) by the square of height (in meter).a bmi of 19 – 25 is consider as good or you can say this range good state of health.