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Weight Management: Understanding your BMI

Why know your BMI?
As you set personal goals on the way to changing how you look and feel, your BMI can serve as an accurate indicator of overall well-being. A high BMI can be associated with serious health risks including

  • obesity
  • heart disease
  • diabetes
  • cancer

What your results mean
Your BMI provides a helpful guideline for achieving the weight range that's healthiest for you. Using your BMI results, explore your personal path to healthier living with the help of Herbalife.  Herbalife is dedicated to helping people change their lives, both through powerful support and good nutrition made simple!

You can interpret your BMI results as follows:

RESULT
Below 20 slender-lean
20 to 25   ideal weight range
25 to 30  overweight (25 - 27 could be healthy range if large-boned and heavily muscled)
30+         very overweight / high risk
40+         significantly overweight / high risk for health complications