What is a healthy weight?Most often it is associated with visual appeal, but we must not forget that the optimal weight - it is also the prevention of many diseases.
Normal weight women
Most modern people, especially the young, have a very distorted concept of what should be a woman's weight.Existing aesthetic standards of the female body does not really have anything to do with health or with medical standards.
What should be the normal weight women?The fair sex, which 50 years ago would have been considered normal and even a thin, is today considered to put it mildly, a bit fat.
30 years ago a normal body weight was calculated by the formula "the growth of minus one hundred."Later, a formula of "negative growth of one hundred and ten."Today, more and more often found in different sources typically calculate weight for women - "the growth of minus one hundred and twenty."Modern women do not just impose harmony and unhealthy thinness, which often leads to disruption of the menstrual cycle and the inability to conceive a child.
What doctors say about the optimal parameters of the women's weight?According to experts, the formula of "one hundred minus growth" is not accurate, because it does not take into account height, age, weight and width of the bone, the amount of muscle mass, body fat, type of addition.With this counting error can be 5-7 kg.
There are other ways to find out your ideal weight.Many people have more confidence in such indicators as the width of the folds of fat on the abdomen, which are captured vertically at the level of the navel.If this parameter is from 2-4 cm, the woman has a normal weight.
Formula "weight minus one hundred ten" can not be called correctly.This option is counting normal weight is not suitable for people below average height.For example, low girl, with no excess fat will weigh more than the result.
determine whether a woman has a normal weight, you can use the body mass index.To find the value, it is necessary weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.If the result is less than 15, there is an acute shortage of body weight.If the value is between 15 and 18 you can talk about the lack of weight.The best option is observed at a value of 20 to 25. The weight is considered to be redundant if the figure is 25-30.The index above 30 indicates obesity.
There are special scales, with which you can learn percentage of fat in the body.Weight women is considered normal if the value is 18-25%.
Normal weight men
How to determine normal weight men?As with women, it is possible to make the width of the folds of fat on my stomach.The rate for the stronger sex differs from the female, and is 1-2 cm.
Formula "growth minus one hundred" true men do not always.Most of the men whose weight is so important, look lean and can be considered normal.Athletes who do not have excess fat and sunken look, weighing 10-15 kg more than non-sports men of the same height weighing "growth minus one hundred".Athletes with muscular at times does not weigh less than men with obvious fat deposits because muscle is heavier than fat.
If you judge a man by the weight mass index, the normal weight will match the value in the range of 20 to 25. Obesity begins with the figure 30.
Formula, which today define normal weight men and women, can not be taken into accountmany factors, so the results can not be considered accurate.These calculations are not quite suitable for people of older age categories.To assess the weight of doctors offer to measure waist circumference.In men, this figure should not exceed 95 cm, for women - 80 cm.
