e, the nurses of 
parish, believe in the integration of the practice of nursing with the sacred ministry of Jesus. We believe that people within our parish community can achieve wholeness and that wellness is an essential element of spiritual life. We believe that caring for self and others is an expression of God's love.
The parish nurse is a registered professional nurse who volunteers to the faith community through the practice of nursing. The parish nurse will promote health and healing as part of the mission and ministry to the members of parish.
The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a statistical measure which compares a person's weight and height. Though it does not actually measure the percentage of body fat, it is used to estimate a healthy body weight (underweight, overweight or obese) based on a person's height.
BMI was explicitly cited in a 1972 white-paper by Ancel Keys[1], as being appropriate for population studies, and inappropriate for individual diagnosis. Nevertheless, due to its simplicity, it came to be widely used for individual diagnosis, despite its inappropriateness.
BMI has become controversial because many people, including physicians, have come to rely on its apparent numerical authority for medical diagnosis, but that was never the BMI's purpose; it is meant to be used as a simple means of classifying sedentary (physically inactive) individuals with an average body composition. For these individuals, the current value settings are as follows:
Body mass index is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of his or her height. The formula, shown at right, is universally used in medicine produce a unit of measure of kg/m2. BMI can also be determined using a BMI chart, which displays BMI as a function of weight (horizontal axis) and height (vertical axis) using contour lines for different values of BMI or colors for different BMI categories.
The formula above universally used in medicine, produces a unit of measure of kg/m2 in the International System of units (SI), the modern form of the metric system. Alternative measurements systems, common in Great Britain and the United States are Imperial units and US customary units respectively. Because of "lb vs. kg" and "ft or in vs. m" in the alternative systems, other formulae must be used.
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Enter your weight in pounds and your height in inches to see your BMI.
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