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Again, ‘yes’ answers score one point, but please note that if your BMI is equal to or over 33 then you score one point four times for the weight-related questions.

Do you have now or have you ever had in the past:

1 Is your BMI 33 or more?

2 Is your BMI 30 or more?

3 Is your BMI 27 or more?

4 Is your BMI 24 or more?

5 Difficulty losing weight despite exercise and/or a calorie-controlled diet?

6 An addiction to carbohydrates/sweets?

7 Inexplicable fatigue, tiredness, lack of energy?

8 Headaches, nausea or fatigue that is alleviated by eating?

9 A feeling of always being thirsty?

10 Need to eat every 3 hours or less?

11 Irritable after 4 hours without food?

12 Sleepy or fuzzy headed particularly after carbohydrate meals?

13 Suffer from afternoon fatigue?

14 Indigestion after meals?

15 Acne?

16 Physically unfit?

17 Hirsutism (excess facial hair or on the thighs)? (Women only)

18 Dry, flaky skin?

19 An earlobe crease in each ear?

20 Postural hypotension (your blood pressure drops when you stand up)?

21 Arcus senilis in your eyes? (This is a marking in the coloured part of the eye, the iris, where there is a white circle within the circumference, usually at the top of the iris under the eyelid (11 to 1 o’clock), but sometimes in the lower part too (4–8 o’clock), and sometimes around the whole iris)

Score out of 21 (women) =

Score out of 20 (men) =