Measure up
A new way to assess your overall health
Given the BMI’s prevalence today, it’s astounding to think the principle behind the Body Mass Index was first described by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet back in 1832.
Quetelet wanted to model the growth of a human beyond puberty and found that weight ‘increases as the square of the height’. This led to the familiar equation, BMI = weight ÷ height (using kg and metres),
