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    This document provides instructions for a laboratory exercise to calculate body mass index (BMI). Students are asked to: 1. Measure their own weight and height. 2. Use the formula BMI = weight (kg) / [height (m)]2 to calculate their BMI. 3. Interpret their BMI based on WHO classification ranges provided in a table, to assess if they are underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. The document includes the BMI formula, examples of BMI calculations, and a table to classify BMI into categories from severely underweight to obese class III. Students are to compute their own BMI and interpret the results.

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    This document provides instructions for a laboratory exercise to calculate body mass index (BMI). Students are asked to: 1. Measure their own weight and height. 2. Use the formula BMI = weight (kg) / [height (m)]2 to calculate their BMI. 3. Interpret their BMI based on WHO classification ranges provided in a table, to assess if they are underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. The document includes the BMI formula, examples of BMI calculations, and a table to classify BMI into categories from severely underweight to obese class III. Students are to compute their own BMI and interpret the results.

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    College of Nursing

    NCM 105A
    NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY
    LABORATORY

    LABORATORY EXERCISE NO. 2

    Dietary Computation: Body Mass Index (BMI) Determination


    Name: _________________________________________________________ Date Due: _________________________
    Year and Section: ______________________________________________ Date Submitted: ____________________
    Professor: ______________________________________________________ Score: _____________________________

    I. Objectives:
    Within the week, the student will be able to:
    1. Determine body weight and height
    2. Compute for BMI and assess nutritional status
    3. Interpret the result of their BMI

    II. Procedure:
    1. Weigh yourself using a bathroom scale. Wear only light clothing and put aside anything that adds to
    your weight. Otherwise, you cannot get the correct result which can affect the assessment.
    2. Determine your height using a steel tape.
    3. Read the description/definition of BMI below

    The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a statistical measurement which compares a
    person's weight and height. Though it does not actually measure the percentage of body fat, it is used to
    estimate a healthy body weight based on how tall a person is. Due to its ease of measurement and
    calculation, it is the most widely used diagnostic tool to identify weight problems within a population,
    usually whether individuals are underweight, overweight or obese. It was invented between 1830 and
    1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing "social physics". [1] Body
    mass index is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of his or her height. The
    formulae universally used in medicine produce a unit of measure of kg/m2. BMI can also be determined
    using a BMI chart, which displays BMI as a function of weight (horizontal axis) and height (vertical axis)
    using contour lines for different values of BMI or colours for different BMI categories.

    SI
    units

    UC-CON: Nutrition and Diet Therapy Laboratory │ Dietary Computation: Body Mass Index (BMI) Determination | 4
    A graph of body mass index is shown above. The dashed lines represent subdivisions within a major class. For
    instance the "Underweight" classification is further divided into "severe," "moderate," and "mild" subclasses.

    4. Determine your BMI using the formula.

    Subject: Khris, Male 5’8”, Actual Weight= 56kg

    Note: 1 inch= 2.54 cm; 1m=100cm; 1 kg= 2.2 pounds

    5x12= 60 inches +8= 68 inches x 2.54= 172.72 cm/100= 1.7272 multiply by itself=2.98
    BMI= 56kg/2.98= 18.79 (Normal based on the table below)
    These ranges of BMI values are valid only as statistical categories when applied to adults, and do not predict
    health.

    UC-CON: Nutrition and Diet Therapy Laboratory │ Dietary Computation: Body Mass Index (BMI) Determination | 5
    BMI range – Mass (weight) of a 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) person with this
    Category BMI Prime
    kg/m2 BMI

    Severely
    less than 16.5 less than 0.66 under 53.5 kilograms (8.42 st; 118 lb)
    underweight

    between 53.5 and 60 kilograms (8.42 and 9.45 st; 118


    Underweight from 16.5 to 18.4 from 0.66 to 0.73
    and 132 lb)

    between 60 and 81 kilograms (9.4 and 13 st; 130 and


    Normal from 18.5 to 24.9 from 0.74 to 0.99
    180 lb)

    between 81 and 97 kilograms (12.8 and 15.3 st; 180 and


    Overweight from 25 to 30 from 1.0 to 1.2
    210 lb)

    between 97 and 113 kilograms (15.3 and 17.8 st; 210


    Obese Class I from 30.1 to 34.9 from 1.21 to 1.4
    and 250 lb)

    between 113 and 130 kilograms (17.8 and 20.5 st; 250
    Obese Class II from 35 to 40 from 1.41 to 1.6
    and 290 lb)

    Obese Class III over 40 over 1.6 over 130 kilograms (20 st; 290 lb)

    Compute your own BMI and Interpret. (Every member of the group)

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    Write the member’s name below the body shape based on the result.

    Women: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

    BMI: 18.3 19.3 20.9 23.1 26.2 29.9 34.3 38.6 45.4

    Men: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

    BMI: 19.8 21.1 22.2 23.6 25.8 28.1 31.5 35.2 41.5

    UC-CON: Nutrition and Diet Therapy Laboratory │ Dietary Computation: Body Mass Index (BMI) Determination | 7

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