Your tape should stretch around the body at the level of the top of the left and right ileum on the hip. For example a person with a 28 in 71 cm waist and 5 ft 7 in 170 cm height has a waistheight ratio of 042. The average waist size of a woman in the united states is 387 inches according to the centers for disease control and prevention cdc. Measuring your waist circumference is a good way to tell. Wrap the measuring tape. Waist hip ratio is sometimes used as an indicator of certain health conditions.

This risk goes up with a waist size that is greater than 35 inches for women or greater than 40 inches for men. Waist hip ratio whr is defined as the ratio of waist circumference to hip circumference. Check out the easy to follow instructions for getting accurate measurements for each body part below. Taking the measurement 1. Take a waist measurement. It said extremely slim even though my bmi was in the healthy range.

Learn how to do it. My weight says people should be manning their harpoons. Measure the circumference of your chest. To get an accurate measurement you need to ensure that the tape measure is resting against. Measure the circumference of your waist. I then entered my waist measurement from before i had children and weighed 150 pounds 26 inches and a bmi of 22.

Now if my bmi were say 17 to 19 at the time when i had a 26 inch waist i would agree with that label. So you are not particularly curvy your waist is not well defined and your weight is fairly distributed throughout the bodythis shape of the body is also called as the straight or ruler body. Rectangle a rectangle is a woman whose body shape means having waist measurements that are less than 9 inches smaller than the hip or bust measurements. To correctly measure your waist stand and place a tape measure around your middle just above your hipbones. The value is calculated by dividing waist measurement by hip measurement. Use the tape to circle.

Measure your waist just after you breathe out. For the waist measurement youll need a flexible measuring tape such as this one from amazon. The ilium is the largest and highest bone in the hip. The waist height ratio is calculated as waist measurement divided by height measurement w h. Your waist is the soft. Remove or raise clothing.

Use your fingers to find the top of your hips and the base of your rib cage. Do you need to lose weight. That measurement is an increase from a decade before. A person with a 34 waist and 40 hip would therefore have a waist hip ratio of 3440 or 085. Place one end of the tape measure at the fullest part of your bust wrap.

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