How to calculate your ideal body weight
Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They’ve got the same BMI, but Suzie has a body volume of 69 litres, because fat is less dense than muscle and takes up more space. I like this more than the stripped-down versions of my ideal weight prescribed by other various body weight scales such as Hamwi, Creff, Devine, Monnerot-Dumaine, Robinson, Lorentz, Miller or – and this is really getting absurd — the lower limit of my healthy BMI range. My hopes are similarly low for the recently launched Surface-Based Body Shape Index, even if it does outperform BMI as a predictor of all-cause mortality. The Surface-Based Body Shape Index also requires a complex measurement that involves running a tape from the groin over the shoulder to the bum crack, which I can see leading to some resistance in the average GP’s surgery.
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