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How we can measure obesity ?by what ?
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Height and weight: You use your height and weight to calculate your body mass index (bmi). Normal is 18.5-25. Underweight is less than 18.5. Overweight is 25-29.99. Obese is 30 or more. Bmi helps us guess how much body fat we have. Therere many calculators you can find on the web or app for phone. Just plug in your height and weight. Be well!
Answered 12/9/2013
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Various scales: certainly just weight and height is good enough for most people. Gold standard is an MRI which measures every dot for whether it is fat, air, muscle, water due to chemical vibration under magnetic field. ALmost perfect correlation with measuring fatness with calipers. so... scale, calipers you can measure density with dunking someone in a pool and measuring how well they float; not necessary.
Answered 5/9/2015
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