A selection of medical nutrition tools to help you manage your nutritional intake.
Your BMI is a helpful measurement and can be used as part of an assessment to see if you are at risk of undernutrition it is not used own because it does not take into account weight that you have lost. So even if your BMI result is in the normal or above range, but you have lost weight recently without intending to, it is worth speaking to your healthcare professional.
MUST stands for Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool and is a recognised tool used by healthcare professionals to help identify patients who may be at risk of undernutrition. The tool works by calculating your BMI, as well as taking into account any recent unintentional weight loss and serious illness. .