For those of you who take vitamins, you’re probably familiar with the common vitamins contained in your standard “take one for the day and you’re done” pill. You may even be familiar with some of the minerals as well. But very few people are aware of, or even know, that your better variety of vitamin [...]
Before we start calculating BMI, let’s discuss what BMI is, and what it is not. BMI, or the body mass index, is a tool that is used to determine whether or not a person is at a normal weight for his or her height. It was invented between 1830 and 1850 by mathematician and scientist [...]
The BMI Index is a tool that was invented in the early 1800s. While there aren’t many health and fitness tools that were created in the eartly 1800s that we’re still using today just as they were, the BMI index is relatively unchanged in almost 200 years. It’s still a popular tool used to figure [...]
BMI calculations might seem like some esoteric and complicated process that you have no hope of figuring out. That’s not true. BMI isn’t magic or some scientific secret withheld by those in the know. If you’ve ever used a BMI calculator online, then you know that you put in your height and weight, [...]
Though one of the most popular tools used today to determine whether someone is at a healthy weight or not is the BMI, body fat and lean muscle tissue don’t figure into the equation. This has led many experts to discount BMI as an archaic measurement that isn’t accurate for many people. What is BMI, [...]