Understanding obesity

Obesity is defined as a deviation from ideal weight. This gap is more or less, from overweight and obesity moderate to morbid obesity itself.

Calculate your ideal weight with the formula of Lorentz

There are several ways to calculate its weight ideal.

One of them is the Lorentz formula :

Male: h - 100 - (h - 150) / 4
Male: h - 100 - (h - 150) / 2

Where h is the height in centimeters. Thus the ideal weight of a man of 1.75 m is 69 kg and that of a woman of the same size of 63 kg.

Calculate your ideal weight with BMI

In practice, more frequently used the body mass index (BMI) :

BMI: m/h2

Where m is the weight and h is the height in meters.

According to this index, a man of 1.75 m and 69 kg has a BMI of 22.5 and a woman of the same size but weighing 63 kg has a BMI of 20.5.

In practice, the Lorentz formula is used to find the ideal weight and body mass index assesses the degree of overweight or obese.