What metrics are commonly used to assess healthy and unhealthy body weight?

What will be an ideal response?


As you evaluate your body weight and the weight you would like to reach and maintain throughout life, there are a few metrics that can help you do so. These metrics provide an estimate of healthy and unhealthy body weight and include body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). These assessments require only a scale and a measuring tape, are quick and easy to obtain, and offer a realistic way for you to track your body weight throughout the years.

Health & Biomechanics

You might also like to view...

The advertisement for the trade name drug ________ shows a large, pale moth that only comes out at night flying in a bedroom window and putting a person to sleep

Fill in the blank with the right word.

Health & Biomechanics

Safety belts should be used by car occupants:

(a) except for short trips (b) all of the time (c) when they can be adjusted comfortably (d) when there is no risk of being trapped in the car in case of an accident

Health & Biomechanics

Grooming products are increasingly becoming more acceptable for males, as advertisers use product names that suggest ________ to attract males.

A. love B. power C. sex D. money

Health & Biomechanics

Which of the following is/are true regarding dynamic equilibrium?

A. first identified by D'Alembert B. applies to bodies in motion C. both applies to bodies in motion and first identified by D'Alembert D. there is no such thing as dynamic equilibrium

Health & Biomechanics