body-mass index

基本解釋

A body-mass index, or BMI, of 18.5 to 24.9 is considered “normal”; from 25 to 29.9 is considered “overweight.”
身體的BMI指數(shù)，從18.5到24.9為“正常”；從25到29.9為“超重”。
Mothers had a higher body-mass index and didn't eat as healthily as childless women, chugging more sugary drinks and eating more total calories and saturated fat.
作為母親，擁有一個(gè)更高的體重指數(shù)，而且不能跟沒(méi)有孩子的女性吃的一樣健康，她們咕咕地喝更多含糖飲料和吃更多含總熱量和飽和脂肪的食物。
The universal standard introduced by the WHO for assessing weight is the Body-Mass Index (BMI): one's weight in kilograms divided by the square of one's height in meters.
WHO所引用的衡量體重的常規(guī)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)時(shí)BMI：就是用一個(gè)的體重（千克）除以他的身高（米）的平方。

So at a given level of overweight out here -twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty-one, thirty-three are the body mass index, the women are more likely to get Diabetes then the men are.
在超重情況下,如果體重一定,這里的27,29,31,33,表示體重指數(shù),女性比男性更易患糖尿病
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First is the body mass index, you're going to see this a lot and you--some of you probably know about it already because it's out there in the popular literature.
首先是體重指數(shù),我們會(huì)經(jīng)常碰到這個(gè)概念,你們也許已經(jīng)知道這個(gè)概念了,它經(jīng)常在科普讀物中出現(xiàn)
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By controlling for individual and environmental influences on weight, such as income and health, they then measure whether food-price changes affect body-mass index (BMI).
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A person's body mass index is a measurement that represents the relationship between their weight and their height.