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BMI is used to determine whether your body weight is healthy and calculates your weight based on your height. The formula for calculating BMI is as follows:

× 10,000 = BMI

Both low and high BMI values indicate poor health:

However, there is a downside to BMI because it does not consider healthy muscle mass, fat distribution, and pelvic measurements.

For example, an athlete may have high muscle mass, but it is calculated as weight. As a result, their BMI measurement may indicate that the athlete is obese when they are actually healthy. Moreover, women and older men tend to store more fat than younger men.

Reports have suggested that WHR may be better than BMI at assessing the risk of cardiovascular diseases and premature death. WHR measures the narrowest portion of the waist, directly above the navel, divided by the circumference of the hip at its broadest point:

WC (waist circumference) / HC (hip circumference at the broadest point) = waist-to-hip ratio

According to the World Health Organization, a good WHR ratio is as follows:

Irrespective of sex, if a person has WHR higher than 1.0, that person is overweight and may have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular diseases.

Calculating WHR may be difficult, however, because taking accurate hip measurements poses a challenge. For example, a person may have a greater WHR because of accumulated weight around the abdomen, but that weight could be either fat or muscle around the hips as a result of exercise.

When measuring body fat percentage, a health professional should measure thighs, abdomen, and chest in men and upper arm circumference in women. The range of accuracy should be 3.5%. To calculate body fat percentage:

WBD (weight of body fat) / TW (total weight) = body fat percentage

According to the American Council on Exercise, healthy essential body fat composition is as follows:

Other ways to determine body fat percentage include

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