Sources, with dates
Every clinical figure on this site traces to one of the 12 references below. Each row gives the publication date, what the source is used for, and the month the page was last checked against it.
What this list is for
SehatCheck publishes published arithmetic, not advice. The point of this page is that you can check every number against its primary source without asking us to be trusted. Where two sources disagree — and on Indian BMI cutoffs they do — both are listed and the disagreement is named on the page that uses them.
स्रोत·WHO के एशियाई-भारतीय BMI कटऑफ·समीक्षित जुलाई 2026
यह साइट 23 क्यों दर्ज करती है और 25 क्यों नहीं — पूरा तर्क, साथ में 2004 परामर्श का उद्धरण →
The reference list
Publication date and last-checked date are separate columns on purpose. A 2004 paper does not become a 2026 paper because a page was reviewed this month.
| स्रोत | Published | What it is used for | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHO Expert Consultation. “Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies.” The Lancet 2004;363(9403):157–163. लिंक | 10 January 2004 | The Asian-Indian public-health action points at BMI 23.0, 27.5, 32.5 and 37.5, and the healthy band of 18.5–22.9 used for every weight range on this site. | जुलाई 2026 |
| World Health Organization. “Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic” (WHO Technical Report Series 894, 2000) — the international BMI classification for adults. | 2000 (WHO Technical Report Series 894) | The international BMI classification — overweight at 25, obesity at 30 — shown alongside the Asian-Indian reading on every result. | जुलाई 2026 |
| Misra A, Chowbey P, Makkar BM, et al. “Consensus statement for diagnosis of obesity, abdominal obesity and the metabolic syndrome for Asian Indians and recommendations for physical activity, medical and surgical management.” J Assoc Physicians India 2009;57:163–170. | February 2009 | The 90 cm / 80 cm waist action points for Indian adults, and the stricter Indian obesity threshold of BMI 25 that this site names but does not adopt. | जुलाई 2026 |
| ICMR–National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. “Nutrient Requirements for Indians — Recommended Dietary Allowances and Estimated Average Requirements,” 2020. लिंक | 2020 | The protein estimated average requirement (0.66 g/kg/day) and recommended dietary allowance (0.83 g/kg/day) for healthy Indian adults. | जुलाई 2026 |
| Mifflin MD, St Jeor ST, Hill LA, Scott BJ, Daugherty SA, Koh YO. “A new predictive equation for resting energy expenditure in healthy individuals.” Am J Clin Nutr 1990;51(2):241–247. | February 1990 | Resting metabolic rate on every calorie page, before the activity factor is applied. | जुलाई 2026 |
| World Health Organization. “Waist circumference and waist–hip ratio: report of a WHO expert consultation, Geneva, 8–11 December 2008.” WHO, 2011. | Consultation December 2008; report published 2011 | Waist-to-hip risk thresholds of 0.90 for men and 0.85 for women. | जुलाई 2026 |
| Ashwell M, Gunn P, Gibson S. “Waist-to-height ratio is a better screening tool than waist circumference and BMI for adult cardiometabolic risk factors: systematic review and meta-analysis.” Obesity Reviews 2012;13(3):275–286. | March 2012 | The waist-to-height target of under 0.5, shown as a cross-check on the waist page. | जुलाई 2026 |
| Jäger R, Kerksick CM, Campbell BI, et al. “International Society of Sports Nutrition Position Stand: protein and exercise.” J Int Soc Sports Nutr 2017;14:20. | June 2017 | The 1.4–2.0 g/kg training bands, labelled throughout as sports-nutrition guidance rather than a dietary requirement. | जुलाई 2026 |
| EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies. “Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values for water.” EFSA Journal 2010;8(3):1459. | March 2010 | The 2.0 L / 2.5 L reference values used to sanity-check the 30–35 ml per kg planning estimate. | जुलाई 2026 |
| Devine BJ. “Gentamicin therapy.” Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy 1974;8:650–655 — व्यापक रूप से उद्धृत “आइडियल बॉडी वेट” फ़ॉर्मूले का स्रोत। | 1974 | The Devine reference column on ideal-weight pages. Shown because people search for it, never as this site's answer. | जुलाई 2026 |
| World Health Organization. “Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour,” 2020 — 150–300 minutes of moderate, or 75–150 minutes of vigorous, activity a week for adults. | November 2020 | The activity guidance quoted in the guides. | जुलाई 2026 |
| Approximate adult mean heights for India, National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), 2019–21. Used only as a reference height for illustrative tables. | Survey fieldwork 2019–21 | The reference heights of 165 cm and 152 cm used for illustrative calorie tables. Every page using them says so. | जुलाई 2026 |
स्रोत·WHO के एशियाई-भारतीय BMI कटऑफ·समीक्षित जुलाई 2026
How — and how far — these are reviewed
Once a quarter, each figure on this site is re-derived from the source above and the "last checked" month is updated. That is a clerical review: the arithmetic is verified against the primary text, and any drift is corrected in favour of the source.
It is नहीं a clinical review. No doctor, dietitian or exercise physiologist has reviewed SehatCheck, and this site does not claim one has. That is precisely why it publishes formulas and citations rather than recommendations — you are meant to be able to check it, not to take its word.
If a figure here disagrees with its primary source, the primary source wins and the page is corrected. Send the URL.
Where the sources disagree
Three separate band sets are in circulation for the same measurement. The WHO international classification puts overweight at 25. The 2004 WHO expert consultation identified 23 as an action point for Asian populations while explicitly retaining 25 internationally. The 2009 Indian consensus statement went further and proposed obesity at 25 for Indians living in India.
This site uses 23 and 27.5, shows the international 25 and 30 next to it on every result, and names the stricter Indian figure in the method. Hiding any of the three would make the page tidier and less true.
यह साइट 23 क्यों दर्ज करती है और 25 क्यों नहीं — पूरा तर्क, साथ में 2004 परामर्श का उद्धरण →
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