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- A review of BMI of various countries was recently published in the medical journal The Lancet.
- The study has ranked India at the 196th spot with respect to BMI.
- India’s 19-year-old boys and girls have a BMI of 20.1.
- India ranks third and fifth from the bottom respectively among countries where 19-year-old girls and boys have a low body mass index.
- As BMI is a function of height, the corollary is that Indian teens are also among the shortest in the world.
- BMI is measured as the weight in kg divided by the square of the height in metres.
- The normal BMI ranges between 20 and 25.
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