What is a BMI Calculator?
There is a good percentage of the population that is very unfamiliar with what a Bass Mass Index (BMI) is. They don’t realize how important this index is to their overall health. The BMI index is what doctors use to determine a persons body fat or health percentile ranking. By using a BMI calculator they can measure a person overall body weight and fat density. The process doesn’t measure the body fat directly, however the measurement does correlate with a direct measure of body fat. Using a BMI measurement is considered very inexpensive and easy compared to the alternative of paying a company to perform a direct body fat test. The BMI index uses a person weight and height to determine their overall health percentile ranking. The ranking is age and sex-specific, and not just a genetic reading. After combining a person age and weight, the BMI calculator assigns a number to different categories. The categories are than ranked by levels such as; underweight, healthy weight, overweight and
