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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ideal body weight of Indian men now 65 kg, women 55 kg

Ideal body weight of Indian men now 65 kg, women 55 kg

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published Published on Oct 1, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 1, 2020

-The Hindu

Decade-old standard of 60 kg and 50 kg revised; adult age put at 19-39 years

Hyderabad: ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) has redefined the ideal or reference Indian adult man and woman with regard to age to 19-39 years instead of 20-39 years. The body weight has been put at 65 kg for males and 55 kg for females while earlier, it was 60 kg and 50 kg respectively, which are a decade old.

This is based on the latest nationally representative data sourced from the National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4, 2015-16), National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB, 2015-16), the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2006-07) and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP 2015) to “derive acceptable reference body weight values through the lifespan”.

In the ‘Recommended Dietary Allowances’ and ‘Nutrient Requirements’ report prepared by NIN, the city-based nodal agency for recommending dietary allowances and nutrient requirements for Indians, includes Estimated Average Requirements (EARs) and Tolerable Upper Limits of nutrients for the first time.

Dietary intake

Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) are daily dietary nutrient intake levels which would be sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all healthy individuals while EARs are the average daily nutrient intake levels of the population.

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The Hindu, 1 October, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/ideal-body-weight-of-indian-men-now-65-kg-women-55-kg/article32736299.ece?homepage=true


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