Creator:

Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Nutrition, Obesity, and Body Mass

Tags:

• adults
• child obesity
• children
• obesity
• overweight

Date:

2005

URL:

http://www.cflri.ca/media/node/589/files/Heaviest%20Health%20Region%20Canada.pdf

Annotation:

Body Mass Index (BMI) is calculated by taking the ratio of weight and height.  BMI data from Statistics Canada's 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey were compiled to create these rankings.  Data were normalized to the overall Canadian population for age and sex.