Evington, VA
A 28-year-old female asked:
I'm a 28 year old female and i weigh 94.4 pounds and i'm 5ft tall is this an ok weight for me?
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Dr. Milton Alvis, jranswered
Preventive Medicine 43 years experience
ManyVariablesDepends: For a crude guide, check https://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/body_mass_index. Compared to average us citizen, you are slender ; that tends to correlate with better, not worse health. The low-fat diet fiasco has driven obesity, so avoid copying the us average. Muscle mass, lipoproteins by nmr, average blood glucose by hba1c ≈5.0%, resting sbp <120 mmhg, staying physically active, etc. Are better guides.
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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr commented
Preventive Medicine 43 years experience
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Keep in mind that "Normal", the substitute concept for health promoted by most people & the medical industry, does NOT mean Excellence of Health; only not Severely Abnormal. The medical industry DEFINES normality as average +/- 2 Standard Deviations, i.e. the central 95.8% of a variable, as compared with a small group of individuals (assumed to not be ill) & measured sometime in the past.
Mar 15, 2014
Dr. Diane Minichanswered
Family Medicine 39 years experience
Normal: Bmi is 18.5. Normal is 18, 5-25.0.
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