My body is growing

Height and weight are measurements that tell us that our body is developing and growing with age. Sex, race, food, genetic inheritance and illnesses are some of the factors that will affect your body's development and growth.

In this unit we are going to measure how tall you and also how much do you weigh. Then, we are going to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI).

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women. BMI is a person's weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters.

A high BMI can be an indicator of high body fatness. BMI can be used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems but it is not diagnostic of the body fatness or health of an individual.

If you want to calculate your BMI, click on the next link:

http://nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.aspx?CalculatorType=Metric