Here’s a handy online tool for calculating your exact BMI or Body Mass Index. This is the standard figure used for reckoning overweight and obesity.
The system is open to some criticism in that it doesn’t take into account all the relevant factors (e.g., is the person a body builder who has extra muscle in his weight, or a person who has suffered muscle wasting and has less muscle than normal inhis weight, or a person who is large or small boned), but it’s still nice to be able to calculate your exact BMI and see how you stack up against the idealized numbers in common use.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Cool stuff!
It looks like I’m a tad “overweight” for my height, but then again, I’ve been lifting weights for several years.
How about some commentary on exercise?
Cool stuff!
It looks like I’m a tad “overweight” for my height, but then again, I’ve been lifting weights for several years.
How about some commentary on exercise?