"Am I Overweight?"

Many people often wonder if they are overweight.
One tool often used to assess one’s weight status
is the Body Mass Index or BMI. It is a measure
of weight for height for adults over 20 years old.
BMI falls into one of these categories:

BMI is only an estimation of an individual’s
body fat. The correlation between fatness
and BMI differs with age and gender.

For example, women are more likely to have a higher percent of body fat than men for the same BMI. Older people also tend to have more body fat than younger adults with the same BMI.2

A bodybuilder with a large muscle mass and a low percent body fat may have the same BMI as a person who has more body fat because BMI is calculated using weight and height only.