Knowing your Body Mass Index

How will you know if your weight is already putting your heath in danger? The answer to that is very easy. You have to know your Body Mass Index. This is one of the first steps to determining if your weight is healthy is to figure out your body mass index.

Your Body Mass Index (BMI) measures your height/weight ratio. If your body mass index is between 19 and 24.9, there's generally no health advantage to losing weight. A BMI between 25 and 29.9 suggests that you are overweight. If you have a BMI of 30 or greater, you are considered obese.

People with a Body Mass Index between 19 and 22 tend to live the longest. Death rates are very high for people with a Body Mass Index of 25 and greater.

Your Body Mass Index correlates your height and weight with potential medical health risks. The Health Development Agency has a proper weight recommendation per height. If your height matches the recommended weight, therefore your weight is healthy and all you have to do is maintain it.

Your waist and hip has also a recommended ratio. You wouldn’t want your body shaped like an apple, and most probably you’ll do anything just to have a pear-shaped one. Also called the ‘love handles’, most of our body fats get stored in our belly, waist and hips. These locations are the hibernation spots of fats. 

You need to eat more than 3 times per day to lose weight, also the pattern that you choose to eat your meals each day is very much an important factor. This is true because your body is like an "engine" and it only needs certain foods at certain intervals each day, and if you don't eat the right foods at the right times then your body will not burn those calories and you'll wind up storing those calories as fat tissue. You have gotten overweight by eating the wrong foods, that much is a fact.  It's not really any more complicated than that, and the way to start losing weight has nothing to do with starving yourself.

That is why you have to be aware of the daily recommendation intake of carbohydrates, protein, fat, calcium and other vitamins and minerals. The proper amount of your daily carbohydrate intake is necessary to maintain energy levels thus helping you to avoid exceeding the limit. While the proper amount your daily protein, calcium and other vitamins and minerals intake will help you maintain you immune system, muscle structure, strong and healthy bones. Lastly, your proper daily intake of fat will help you maintain your overall health.

You are overweight for the most simple of reasons and those are eating the wrong food, the wrong types of calories per meal, and you're also eating meals in the wrong patterns each day. Food is more powerful than any prescription weight loss pills, because the foods that you eat can either make you thin or fat, healthy or overweight. You don't get fat just because you lack of exercising, you get fat because you don't eat the right foods at the right intervals each day. If you want to be healthy and have the proper weights for your height find out your Body Mass Index now!