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Health: Body Mass IndexVideos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_O7Eu0pxAQ Unni Greene, Personal Trainer and Nutritionist with SoMi Fitness, explains BMI (Body Mass Index) is not always the correct measurement, because if you are a bodybuilder, an athlete or a muscular person, you will be heavier than the norm and your BMI will be higher. She explains she uses body composition, which is body [...]

Health: Body Mass Index

Overweight Body Mass IndexVideos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUfiO7e7MBg Dr. Ronald Tolchin, Medical Director at Baptist Center for Spine Care, explains to consider someone is overweight, doctors can't just use absolute weight as a criteria. "You need to look at their height, and their weight together, and we call that measurement BMI or body mass index," he says. He explains if someone weighs [...]

Overweight Body Mass Index

Body Mass Index: Measuring ObesityVideos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFSOO7izSPg Dr. Deepa Sharma, Family Medicine Physician at Baptist Health Primary Care, explains doctors measure obesity with the Body Mass Index (BMI): "That uses height and weight to give an idea of how overweight an individual is". She recommends to people with obesity to have a comfortable relationship with their doctor, because there is a [...]

Body Mass Index: Measuring Obesity

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