Did you know that you can use your waist as a pretty good indicator of your overall health status even if you have never stepped on a scale or measured your own height? Read on to see how you can use your waist measurement as an indicator of your health status.
Although you cannot use your waist size to produce an absolute body fat percentage, the waist does, in fact, provide good information regarding the location of your body fat.
Knowing where most of your body fat is located, along with your body mass index (BMI), allows you to determine whether or not you are overweight.
Obviously, if you are overweight, you should consider trying to lose the excess weight.
Body fat that accumulates in and around the stomach area is an indication that you are more prone to a wide variety of weight-related health issues.
People who accumulate body fat around their waists are usually at a more severe risk of chronic illnesses than those people who collect most of their fat on their buttocks and hips.
By following the four steps below, you can get a reading on your waist circumference.
1.
Relax shoulders and stand naturally 2.
Measure your waist below the rib cage but above the belly button 3.
Breathe out 4.
Read the number If your BMI is 25 to 34.
9 and the size of your waist is greater than 40 inches.
You are at a greater risk of health problems if you are a male.
If you are a female with a waist size over 35", you are at a greater risk of weight related health issues.