Calculate BMI In Pounds And Inches

Body Mass Index (BMI) calculating has been recognised as the key practise against excessive fat. Obesity is gradually becoming one the most health related issues that society suffer from. More people each and every year suffer from a number of sickness due to their body health status. Keeping fit and healthy is essential as this help eliminate your health threats.
Monitoring your Body Mass Index (BMI) should be like going to the cinemas, it is something that we should do every now and then. It is very important to make it a point that you keep your BMI at an acceptable rate to eliminate chances of overweight and obesity. As these terms refer to excessive accumulation of body fat, one should always take his or her BMI into account . As calculating your BMI is not an exact measure of your body fact ofcourse, but this is a very reliable way of evaluating your body fat and it is safe to rather say that it is a relatively accurate mathematical measure of your body fat.
On our Previous post on What Is BMI we looked at calculating your body mass index using kilograms and meters. On this post the focus is on calculating BMI using inches and pounds. So lets Have a look at how to work out this measure.

Calculating BMI Using Pounds :

The BMI formula for your height in inches and weight in pounds is different from that one of using kilograms as a measure of your weight and meters as the height measure. Follow the below simple steps and also see the example after  :
1 Measure your body weight in pounds
2 Measure your body height using inches
3 Square your body height
4 Devide your body weight in pounds by the number you got from step three ( height in pounds squared)
5 Now multiply the answer by the conversion factor of 703

BMI Calculating example using Inches and Pounds:
(weight in pounds) / ( height in inches)( height in inches)  multiplied by 703

So we can see that calculating this way way is different from calculating  body mass index using kilograms as you multiply by 703 which is a conversion factor.

Also see our next post:
Judging your BMI  results