Volume : IV, Issue : X, October - 2014

Body Mass Index ( BMI ) : Mirror of Health

Dr. Mrs. M. K. Malviya

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BMI is the product of height and weight. BMI has been used in Clinical practice by the WHO as the standard for recording obesity statistics since the early 1980s. We randomly selected 500 students from college campus. The anthropometric measurement of 249 male and 251 female students were recorded. For BMI status, findings were tabulated, calculated and represented graphically. We found maximum percentage of underweight students ( 49 % ), as compared to normal BMI ( 47.6 % ), overweight students observed ( 2.8 % ) and obese students ( 0.6 % ), due to many different factors such as stress, tension, restlessness, study, etc affecting their diet and health.

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Dr. Mrs. M. K. Malviya Body Mass Index ( BMI ) : Mirror of Health Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue : 10 October 2014

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