Your BMI, on Indian cutoffs
Most apps read your BMI against a European body, where overweight starts at 25. For Asian-Indian bodies it starts at 23 — the same number means something different.
24.2
Overweight
By Western standards you'd be called normal. On Asian-Indian cutoffs, you're overweight.
A Western app would call this normal. Poshan cuts the rice, keeps the dal, and doubles the sabzi.
The Indian scale
- Underweight< 18.5
- Normal18.5 – 22.9
- Overweight23.0 – 24.9
- Obese≥ 25.0
Cutoffs per the WHO expert consultation on Asian populations (2004), adopted in India's national guidelines. BMI is a screening measure, not a diagnosis — it says nothing about muscle, and a doctor's reading of it beats an app's.
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