BMI Chart
What does your BMI mean? Find your score on the chart below:
So what exactly is BMI?
Healthcare practitioners use body mass index, commonly known as BMI, to get a quick gauge of whether a person has excess weight that could lead to health problems and is the most common diagnostic tool used to identify obesity. By plugging your height and weight into our BMI calculator, you can get a value that will classify you as underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese. In general, the higher your BMI, the greater risk you have for obesity-related diseases like type 2 diabetes and stroke.
Approximately 127 million adults in the US are overweight (BMI>25), 60 million are obese (BMI>30) and 9 million are extremely obese (BMI>40). 67.9% of the male population is overweight in New Jersey and 49.5% of the female population is overweight in New Jersey.
Locally and nationally, obesity has reached epidemic status. In fact, for the first time in more than two hundred years, the current generation of children in America are doomed to have shorter life expectancies than their parents because of the rapid rise of childhood obesity and the host of illnesses it brings.
The good news? This can all end today—and it starts with you. When you make a change for the better, it impacts your entire family for the better.
A Better You’s tried-and-tested medically supervised weight loss/weight management program offers 100 percent personalized weight loss solutions based on a patient’s current needs, lifestyle, medical and/or dietary restrictions, and personal goals. No gimmicks, no calorie counting, no prepackaged food—just a custom-designed, medically supervised weight loss program and the one-on-one support the individual needs to lose weight safely and keep it off for life.
A Better You has helped hundreds of men and women from from the Garden State lose a combined total of more than 27,000 pounds. Recently, the weight loss and weight management center launched a national online weight loss program via Skype.
To learn more about A Better You and find out what you can do to achieve a healthy BMI, lose weight and finally feel better, go to www.ABetterYouWeightLoss.com or call 732.866.THIN/8446.
