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Why do I look thin, but I am heavier than someone who looks fatter than me?
There are many reasons why people who look thin are heavier than those who look fat:

1, taller than people who look fat;

2. The skeleton is heavier than people who look fat;

3. Muscles are tighter than those who look fat;

Looks thin, but much heavier than people who look fat, that is, the same weight, different body shapes. Such as puffiness type and muscular type. Evaluating a person's physique includes weight, height, body fat rate and visceral fat. People with the same weight and high body fat rate are puffy, just like cotton. Low body fat rate is muscular, like iron.

At present, a widely used international standard to measure the degree of obesity and health, bmi index (that is, body mass index, referred to as BMI, or weight in English? Mass? Index, abbreviated as body mass index).

Body mass index (BMI) = weight (kg) ÷ height 2 (m)

For example: 70kg (1.75x1.75) = 22.86.

For example:

For example, a person's height is 1.75m and his weight is 68kg, and his body mass index = 68/( 1.75 2) = 22.2 (kg/m 2). When the body mass index is 18.5 ~ 23.9, it is normal.

Body mass index (BMI) is an index closely related to body fat, which takes into account two factors: weight and height. Body mass index is simple and practical, which can reflect the overweight and obesity of the whole body. ? It is more accurate to measure the risk of heart disease, hypertension and other diseases due to overweight than to identify them simply by weight.