To measure the shape and the status of your health, use four simple indices and see if you are at risk of disease.
There is a number for everything. There are even numbers to assess whether you’re in good shape and know what your current form. But do you know these important numbers that measure your form to reflect the state of your health?
1) Waist
Experts believe that women should have a waistline of 88 cm in height, and men a waist circumference of 102 cm in height so as not to be in poor health. Beyond those limits, experts believe that the person poses a greater risk of developing health problems like diabetes, cardio-vascular hypertension.
To measure your waist measurement, simply wrap a flexible tape measure around your waist (typically 1 cm below the navel), the narrowest part of the trunk.
Attention is not to calculate the waist for your clothes (which is measured by the navel, taking the maximum value without going belly). For clothing, there is another waist.
2) waist-hip ratio
This number is a little harder to calculate. He is to report waist / hip ratio.
First, measure your waist as requested above. Next, measure your waist (wrap the tape around your feet hips 2) by taking the maximum value.
Then, divide your waist circumference (in cm) by your hip measurement (in cm).
Experts believe that to be healthy, waist-hip ratio should be less than or equal to 0.8 in women, and less than or equal to 1 for men.
Example calculation: If you are a woman and your waist is 91 inches and your hip is 102 cm, you divide 91 by 102 and are a waist-hip ratio of 0.89. This ratio is above 0.8 (the limit for good health among women) so you have an increased risk of developing health problems.