Body Mass Index for Asians

If you are an Asian you may be in a trouble, if you compare your BMI values with the WHO accepted world wide body mass index ranges. That is because they are not same even though the method of calculation is same. Therefore it is better to concentrate on WHO guideline on the Asian BMI values.However it is important to know
what is BMI and the WHO classification on BMI. According to that we can get Underweight(under normal), Average (normal), Overweight(above normal) and the obese. The classification of these categories done according to the world wide average weights in related to the height.But, in the Asian countries it is significantly different from the average values of body mass index for world figure. Therefore WHO has made values for classification of BMI for the Asian countries.