Once upon a time, doctors relied upon the body mass index (BMI) to determine who was at risk for heart disease and other dangerous health conditions like diabetes and stroke.
These days, that’s old-school.
There is a method out there, that’s more accurate and much easy to calculate.
It’s called the waist-to-hip-ratio.
You simply measure your waist and divide it by the measurement of your hips.
If the number you get is higher than 0.8 in women or o.9 in men, you are in a health dangerous zone.
The higher the waist-to-hip ratio, the higher your risk of heart attack and other dangerous health conditions like diabetes and stroke.
If you are over the cutoff point but think like many overweight people that you eat right and you are active, think again.
If your waist is almost as big as your hips or bigger, you don’t eat right. Maybe you are active a little, but what you eat is bad stuff.
The interesting thing is that, even if you don’t exercise at all and you eat right stuff you would not be overweight and your waist-to-hip-ratio would be low.
To take this a little further; if your waist to hip ratio is higher than safe number, I recommend you to don’t exercise at all, keep that comfort zone, but eat 100% right and watch your weight go down.
If you exercise, great, but the nutrition is the key to keeping your weight down.
Read about the right eating here:
- What and how should you eat to be healthier and to perform better – fat
- What and how should you eat to be healthier and to perform better – carbohydrates
- What and how should you eat to be healthier and to perform better – protein
- What and how should you eat to be healthier and to perform better