What you can do to Improve your BMI?

Students can improve their BMI's at home by participating in regular physical activity, and eating a balanced diet will help to improve your BMI. At home students can participate in sports, and other forms of exercise such as running, walking, swimming, callesthenic exercises, and/or any other activity that you can think of to be physically active. Eating healthy is also important. Eating 3 meals a day with snacks in between is a great way to help maintain your BMI.

To put things in perspective, an example to help put an amout of exercise to consuming a food/beverage would be a Coke. To eliminate drinking a bottle of coke, you would have to run 1.5 miles.

In class students will participate daily in various activities that increase their heart rate and utilize numerous muscle groups. Students' BMI's will be compared at periodically throughout the marking period to keep track of improvements.

This lesson will teach students that it is important to maintain a healthy weight. Being over or underweight is bad for your health and can lead to different health problems.

Being underweight was associated with increased mortality compared to normal weight individuals, but from noncancer, non-cardiovascular causes. People who were overweight had more risk of death from diabetes and kidney disease but much less from cancer or cardiovascular disease. In fact, being overweight had the lowest risk of mortality of all the causes. Being obese greatly increased the risk of dying from cardiovascular causes.

So, although it seems like being overweight may not be as serious for health risks as being underweight or obese, there is still an increased risk of diabetes and kidney disease that should be taken into consideration.