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Eating healthily in Singapore. Making the right choice of food to lead a healthy life.
Calculate your ideal weight:
Ideal asian weight = [your height in meters] x [your height in meters] x 21
The International Classification of adult underweight, overweight and obesity according to BMI
| Classification | BMI(kg/m2) | |
| Principal cut-off points | Additional cut-off points | |
| Underweight | <18.50 | <18.50 |
| Severe thinness | <16.00 | <16.00 |
| Moderate thinness | 16.00 – 16.99 | 16.00 – 16.99 |
| Mild thinness | 17.00 – 18.49 | 17.00 – 18.49 |
| Normal range | 18.50 – 24.99 | 18.50 – 22.99 |
| 23.00 – 24.99 | ||
| Overweight | ≥25.00 | ≥25.00 |
| Pre-obese | 25.00 – 29.99 | 25.00 – 27.49 |
| 27.50 – 29.99 | ||
| Obese | ≥30.00 | ≥30.00 |
| Obese class I | 30.00 – 34.99 | 30.00 – 32.49 |
| 32.50 – 34.99 | ||
| Obese class II | 35.00 – 39.99 | 35.00 – 37.49 |
| 37.50 – 39.99 | ||
| Obese class III | ≥40.00 | ≥40.00 |
Source: Adapted from WHO, 1995, WHO, 2000 and WHO 2004.
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As you get older:
- Reduce the meal size
- Reduce the meal frequency
- Change the meal composition
Change the meal composition
- Eat vegetables
- Eat meats
- Give up carbohydrates
Eat vegetables
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
Eat meats
- White meat: chicken and fish (caught far away from radioactive Fukushima)
- Red meats: likely carcinogenic
- Processed meats: carcinogenic
References
- How to have your meat and eat it, too (Today Online)
Give up carbohydrates
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