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The BMI is used by doctors and nutritionalists to determine if a person is over- or under-weight, and to what extent. It is calculated as the person's mas (in kg) divided by the square of their height (in m). This calc conveniently allows you to enter height and weight in units of your choice.
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Normally, a BMI of 18.5 or less is considered underweight, while a BMI of 25 or more is considered overweight. Less than 16.5 is described as "starvation", and over 35 is clinically obese. For children, these values are different, and depend on age. Different ethnic body types are also sometimes assessed differently.
Occasionally "BMI prime" is used (also given here), which is BMI/25, thus is greater than 1 if the person is overweight.