The Body Mass Index (BMI) was developed by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet in the mid-19th century. He created the index as a way of assessing the nutritional status of the Belgian population, as he “believed that a person’s height and weight were indicative of their health.”
BMI is the acronym for Body Mass Index, a parameter that is used to assess whether weight is within the ideal value for height, helping to diagnose health problems such as obesity or malnutrition.