Ideal weight for 5'5 female in kg

It’s helpful that BMI numbers are standardized and offer ranges of moderate body weights by height. However, BMI is only one measure and doesn’t tell the whole story.

BMI calculations don’t consider several physical, lifestyle, and medical factors that could influence your body weight.

For instance, it doesn’t consider differences in bone, muscle, and fat mass between age groups and sex assigned at birth.

What is my ideal weight in stones for my height and age

This means an active person with a lot of muscle could be misclassified as having overweight or obese. Similarly, a person with lower muscle or bone mass may be misclassified as underweight if they have high body fat levels.

In other words, BMI could how much fat you have.

BMI cutoffs were also designed by a mathematician based on a white male European population and may be inaccurate for other races and ethnicities.

BMI may be helpful for assessing health risks at the population level, but it’s important for individuals to perform several tests to determine the ideal weight for their age and height.

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