8. Twice as high as your belly is around
May 6, 2008 by Eggplant
A very simple pair of measurments gives a good indicator of potential for cardiovascular disease risk.
If your height is less than two times your waist measurement then you are significantly more likely (up to 11 times more likely) to have a higher cardiovascular disease risk than those people whose height is more than twice their waist.
These results come from a study Waist-to-height ratio: a simple option for determining excess central adiposity in young people, carried out by Drs. S. P. Garnett, L. A. Baur and C. T. Cowell and reported in the International Journal of Obesity (2008).
Everyone knows their height. Measure your waist in the same units (inches, or cm, for example) and divide the waist measurement into the height measurement. So, if you are 5 feet 7 inches tall that’s 67 inches, and if your waist is 36 inches then your height to waist ratio is 67/36 = 1.9, marginally below 2. If you are 5 feet 2 inches (= 62 inches) with a 38 inch waist then your height to waist ratio is a low 1.6
With a low height to waist ratio you know you aren’t going to get any taller - unless you are a kid, still growing - so the only way to increase the height to weight ratio to 2 or more is … you guessed it, lose weight to reduce that belly fat, which, as we already know, is an organ, sending out hormonal messages to the rest of your body.
Here’s a height-waist chart inidicating the maximum waist measurement for a given height that gives a height-waist ratio of 2 or greater:
See also:
Short And Fat Is Beautiful, As Required By Massachusetts State Law
