Are You Overweight: Obesity
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Are you overweight?
Health care providers use body mass index (BMI), an approximate measure of body fat based on a person's height and weight, to determine whether a person's weight falls within a healthy range (see below). Another simple measurement is waist circumference. There are also several methods of estimating the percentage of your weight that is fat, including skin-fold measurement, bioelectric impedance, and underwater weighing.
| Last updated: | June 20, 2007 |
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