BMI is inaccurate not only because it doesn't take into consideration muscle vs fat % but BMI also doesn't work for people of extreme heights. Somebody over 7 feet of even a relatively light body mass may be calculated to have a very high BMI. The following formula works much better than BMI...
hypothetical mass (hm)= real mass (rm) times (hypothetical height (hh)/real height (rh))^3
Note the power of three is used because because the volume of an object is a cubic relation (height *width*depth) for example, if you doubled the size of a cube it's volume would increase 8 folds (2*2*2=8) right? The same concept also applies to humans...
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BMI
Date: 2008-08-13 03:55 am (UTC)The following formula works much better than BMI...
hypothetical mass (hm)= real mass (rm) times (hypothetical height (hh)/real height (rh))^3
Note the power of three is used because because the volume of an object is a cubic relation (height *width*depth) for example, if you doubled the size of a cube it's volume would increase 8 folds (2*2*2=8) right? The same concept also applies to humans...