BMI -Basal metabolic indes 

To know your BMI:

• choose your weigth in Kilograms
• Choose your height in centimeters
• press on calculate

• Bmi or basal metabolic index give an idea about your body , is it normal or obese or underweight
• It depends on  height and weight
• Although obesity is releated to hypertension,diabetes, stroke and heart disease; many see that waist to hip ratio is much more important than BMI as a predictor of  heart disease
• BMI does not take into account the percentage of fat and muscle in the body; so people who  are practising sports may have high BMI , in fact it is the muscles not the fat that contribute to high BMI
• Being to underweight, may have weak immune system and are much more prone to osteoporosis
• Beside BMI, you much take into consideration the presence of other diseases like hypertension,diabetes, cholesterol and smoking