Daffodil International University
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences => Nutrition and Food Engineering => Topic started by: nfe fouzia on April 16, 2014, 07:16:28 AM
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The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a measure for human body shape based on an individual's mass and height.
Devised between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing "social physics", it is defined as the individual's body mass divided by the square of their height – with the value universally being given in units of kg/m2.