Can you be healthy and underweight?!


Question: Can you be healthy and underweight!?
my friend is 104lbs, 5'6, and 18 years old!. her BMI indicates that she is underweight, but she doesnt look it at all!. she walks every day and eats mostly healthy food (except last night when she ate en entire large cheese pizza to herself)!. her body isnt waifish, she has feminine curves!. our other friend is the same, but is 5'4, 19, and 100lbs!.
is the BMI a definite indicator of a healthy weight!? these two girls never get sick and are the most healthy people i knowWww@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
They will be fine, so long as they eat right

Trust me, i know a mum of 3 children, 3 stone under the average 24 year old weight, she is VERY healthy!.
So so long as they make sure they eat well, and dont change anything quickly they wil be fine!.
:)Www@Answer-Health@Com

Well, when they say you are underweight and it is unhealthy alot of the time it isn't all in appearances!. It is what is going on in your organs!. It can cause kidney failure and heart attacks etc!. Thats what the doctor told me because i'm under weight!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

BMI isnt always the best indicator of these things, really!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

im completely the opposite i look underweight but not but im healthy it depends on ur bodyWww@Answer-Health@Com

doesn't sound like their starving themselves so should be okWww@Answer-Health@Com





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