underweight in English

adjective
1
below a weight considered normal or desirable.
he was thirty pounds underweight
noun
1
insufficient weight.
We used these early data together with information collected on cohort members at the age of 50 to explore the effects of childhood obesity and underweight on adult obesity and risk factors for disease.
verb
1
apply too little weight to (something).
we feared the hot-air balloon had been underweighted

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1. The coal is six pounds underweight / underweight by six pounds.

2. Sir, your daughter is underweight

3. The doctor says I'm underweight.

4. The child is born seriously underweight, and underweight babies can not catch up with large ones.

5. He is two pounds underweight.

6. He is ten pounds underweight.

7. One in five is underweight.

8. He is several pounds underweight.

9. Compare thin, skinny , underweight , slim, etc.

10. But is being underweight really desirable?

11. The baby was dangerously underweight at birth.

12. Underweight: Your Bmi is less than 18.5

13. Bmi Values: Less than 16.0 – Severely Underweight.

14. Women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies.

15. Nearly a third of the children were severely underweight.

16. The butcher did me the meat was underweight.

17. If you are very underweight, see your doctor.

18. 10 The baby was dangerously underweight at birth.

19. Being underweight is slightly associated with being Bullied

20. You are only slightly underweight for your height.

21. Not only from her own point of view, but from the point of her cubs, because an underweight female gives birth to underweight cubs and underweight cubs have a great problem of surviving their difficult first year in these circumstances.

22. For bond yields our view is neutral to underweight.

23. She is a few pounds underweight for her height.

24. The underweight child has begun to fill out after regular exercises.

25. Cubs that were born underweight are at the greatest risk.

26. A Bmi of less than 18.5 kg/m² is considered underweight

27. This may help to explain why male smokers have underweight children.

28. 29 His underweight militated against his ever becoming a good sprinter.

29. The doctor says that I'm underweight and has put me on a special diet.

30. You are the girl who in spite of being underweight won sub juniors

31. According to all these charts I am underweight, sometimes by as much as two stone.

32. One alarming symptom of the problem in Africa was the prevalence of underweight pre-school children

33. Besides, I was always underweight for football and just right for basketball and everything else I played.

34. � The definition of underweight was a BMI (Body Mass Index) centile less than or equal to 2.

35. In another study, 45 percent of women who were actually underweight thought that they were too heavy!

36. The Bmi calculator works out if a child or young person is: underweight – on the 2nd centile or below

37. Army doctors considered him underweight at 128 pounds (58 kg), diagnosed his chronic cough as tuberculosis and were concerned about his chronic lumbosacral joint pain.

38. Natural Appetite and Weight Gain Stimulant for Underweight Children Fortified with Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, Folic Acid, Iron, Zinc, Flax Seed Oil

39. Cuddling can boost an infant’s oxygen levels, calm its breathing, and ease pain signals. And for an underweight baby, it raises survival chances by more than a third

40. The development of exercise-induced amenorrhoea (“athletic amenorrhoea”) frequently is an adaption to pathological eating behaviours with calorie deficiency, underweight and – at worst – anorexia, so-called “anorexia athletica”.

41. Bmi is a screening tool that can indicate whether a person is underweight or if they have a healthy weight, excess weight, or obesity.If a person’s Bmi is outside of the healthy range, their

42. Depending on their height and weight, a person can belong to one of the following weight categories: underweight (Bmi less than 18.5) normal weight (Bmi between 18.5 & 24.9) overweight (Bmi between 25.0 & 29.9)

43. Blanketing is for those who don't have a winter coat, are underweight or hard keepers, have illnesses or disorders, those without shelters, wet/windy and cold weather, or those who a weenies in the cold

44. The WHO regards a BMI of less than 18.5 as underweight and may indicate malnutrition, an eating disorder, or other health problems, while a BMI equal to or greater than 25 is considered overweight and above 30 is considered obese.