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How do the two correlate? Mary Jane Beck Yes, there is a huge difference between body fat and body body tracker mass index (BMI). Body fat is a much better indicator of your health, fitness level, disease risk and ideal body weight than BMI. In fact, Shape up America, the anti obesity campaign started by Dr. C. Everett Koop, recently published a press release pointing out the shortcomings of BMI. According to the Shape up America website, BMI missclassifies one out of four people and should not be body tracker used by athletes. To understand why BMI is not a good indicator of your health and fitness, you first need to understand what the BMI is. I pulled out my handy textbook, "Physiology of Sport and Exercise" By Wilmore and Costill to get the official definition. BMI was described in the glossary follows: "BMI is a measurement of body overweight or obesity determined by dividing weight (in kilograms) by height (in meters) squared."
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