Aline is sitting in a physician's office and has just been told that a nurse will be coming in to measure her bmi. aline is not familiar with the term bmi and starts to panic. how should her mother reassure her about bmi tests?

Aline's mother should reassure her just by explaining what BMI is. BMI stands for Body Mass Index or also known as Quetelet Index. It will do no harm to person, because it just need to measure the person's height and weight for the BMI to be computed.