However to stay in good health its still important to eat a balanced diet and include physical activity in your daily life. If youre in the healthy weight range youre a healthy weight for your height. Adults should be active for at least 150 minutes 2 hours and 30 minutes every week. Losing a small amount of weight 5 10 and maintaining this weight loss can have a significant positive impact on your overall health. The bmi calculator can also be used to check if your child is a healthy weight. Once your childs bmi has been calculated theyll be in 1 of 4 categories.
Whatever your weight there may be changes you want to make to improve your health making a few small sustainable changes to your lifestyle can improve your health. By comparing your childs weight with their age height and sex we can tell whether theyre growing as expected. 88cm 34ins or more for women. For children and young people aged 2 to 18 the bmi calculator takes into account age and gender as well as height and weight. If youre in this range it means youre a healthy weight for your height. You can easily check your bmi by using this bmi calculator.
Adults should be active for at least 150 minutes every week. Its still important to eat a balanced diet and include physical activity in your daily life to stay in good health. 80cm 315ins or more for women. 102cm 40ins or more for men. To find out if youre a healthy weight for your height work out your body mass index bmi. A bmi between 185 and 249 is considered healthy.
Youre at very high risk and should contact a gp if your waist is. This is something you may have done when your child was a baby using the growth charts in the personal child health record red book.
Gallery of Nhs Healthy Weight Height
