• BMI or Body Mass index is a simple quantitative measure used by medical practitioners around the world to establish body type categories.

• Body Mass Index 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.

• Generate a function that does it for you (code hidden in the slide, full source code for app)

• Call bmi() with weight, height, gender, and age to calculate BMI.

bmi<-bmi(90,1.83,"M",27)

• Call bmicat() with bmi to know to which category your BMI belongs to.

bmicat(bmi)

## [1] "Overweight"

• Therefore this is a very useful app and the first step to set a baseline before you chase that summer body!
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