Body Mass Index

Calculating your body mass index is said to be becoming increasingly important because it affects your life insurance payments. I don’t know where people have got the idea that this is a new phenomenon because I was always being asked to have medicals when I took on life insurance in the 1960s and 1970s. Unsurprisingly I was not overweight but underweight for my height. If you want to calculate your BMI here is a way to do it:-