Re: Waist-Height Ratio May Show Heart Disease Risk

In article <1118209381.758979.301780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"elgoog" <bjdefend-newsgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Boy that sounds pretty unhealthy to me. I'm 6'-nothing and when I had a
> > 38" waist I weighed near 250 pounds - in other words, obese.
>
> Where are on earth were you packing it - not in your waist! - Don't
> answer that, I don't really want to know (no offense, just none of my
> business).

My guess is: all over, pretty evenly. I've had nurses during a doc's
office weighing express surprise when I bumped the bigger weight to 200
as a starting point... but sure enough it was needed at the time.

> > I'm now at
> > 170 with a 34" waist and still have some lubs around the middle. I would
> > think a 5'10" tall man shouldn't push past a 34" or 35" waist.
>
>
> Way to go on the weight loss! It sounds like you've developed the
> habits to carry you through a lifetime of good maintenance: eat
> healthy, exercise and get the rest you need.

Thanks, a heart scare can certainly be motivating.

> "Rather than relying on body mass index (BMI), the researchers took
> waist measurements. A waist circumference of more than 80 centimeters
> (32 inches) in women and more than 85 centimeters (34 inches) in men
> increased risk. Yusuf says measuring the waist is a better predictor of
> heart attack risk because "it is a measure of abdominal fat, which is
> the type of fat that is most closely associated with heart attacks."" -
> http://my.webmd.com/content/article/93/102336.htm?z=1728_00000_1000_nb_01
>
> BTW 85 centimeters is actually 33.465 inches. So we men really want to
> be in the 33-inch waist category. For women, 80 centimeters equals
> 31.496 inches.

Is all fat around the middle the same? In other words, there are people
who's (or is it "whose"?) midsections look big and round but also appear
pretty solid - Seinfeld's Jason Alexander is one that comes to mind.
Then there are us jigglers - just a flabbiness in the middle but
obviously excessive accumulation that is damn hard to reduce. (Even way
back when I was down near 150 i still had a touch of Dunlap's Disease.)

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