How to Find Your Waist to Hip Ratio

There are several easy ways to assess your health risk at home using minimal equipment. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a long-standing and widely known assessment, yet studies have indicated that both waist circumference and waist to hip ratio are better for assessing cardiovascular disease risk. Join ACE's Jessica Matthews as she explains how to perform these simple measurements at home.

[Dabayare]

For us men, we measure the waist along the belly button. Our hips are also measured at the hip bones(the top part when you are going down from the belly button). For women, it seems you measure them from the narrowest point of their waist to the widest part of their booty.

[facelessartist]

When my mom said I was getting “too thick” I measured my BMI, my BMR, and my W->H ratio.
All three showed up as me being completely healthy.
WTF mom.

[jazminennis]

I like how the video explains how to use a measure. I want to start using it so I can see how much I weight without spending a lot of money

[lilealacrosse]

It was good to know there are several options to determine cardiovascular disease risk outside of BMI which has limited accuracy. I agree it is essential to measure in the same location every time to ensure measurements are accurate.

[mochigojo]

Lol i divided hip/waist and i got 1.something i was so scared

[SelenaSecretShow]

My BMI always made me feel like shit about myself every time I looked at it because it's always been higher with the parts of my body larger than most women but after doing the waist to hip ratio I am very happy to know that my health is not at risk and that I don't need to be doing these crazy diets anymore.

[prettythings]

I really don't understand why we measure the smallest part of our waist and not the largest part of the stomach. In my case the difference is 13 cm!!! So is stomach fat not dangerous so long as it's placed below the waist? That makes no sense.

[jtsmizzack]

I find the difference between low and high to be unsatisfactory. So if I have a 38 waist I'm low risk but an inch and a half later I'm in the high risk category. Is seems as though there should be a moderate risk section.

[MissLalaland]

Smallest part of your waist. Where the indentations are (if you have those of course) :)

[kubaantos]

Interpretacja wyników:

WHtR =( talia cm : wzrost cm ) * 100

WHtR
Kobieta Mężczyzna
Niedożywienie <42 <42
Niedowaga 42-50, 4 42-51, 6
Lekka niedowaga 50, 4-55, 2 51, 6-55, 2
Prawidłowa masa ciała 55, 2-58, 8 55, 2-63, 6
lekka nadwaga 58, 8-61, 5 63, 6-66
Nadwaga 61, 5-64, 8 66-69, 6
Poważna nadwaga 64, 8-67, 2 69, 6-75, 6
Otyłość >69, 6 >75, 6

[mschecter]

I measured 0.81 today as a guy using the measuring techniques shown in the video. I still have work to do on my midsection and I need to lose the love handles and lower belly fat. I do work more of my glutes now through exercises like the hip thrust and I hope I can get that number closer and closer to 0.75 since I'm going for that hourglass shape (male bodybuilders call it X-shape).

[BelieverinChristever]

I don't get how hip to waist ratio can be accurate. I use to weigh 165, and I'm 5'4. My hip to waist ratio was .78 (which supposedly means I'm good. My hips measured at 42 inch and my waist at 33 inch.. I was pretty over wight. I could even see the fat. I recently became vegan (3-4 months ago) and I've lost 15 pounds, lost 2 inches from my hips and one inch from my waist. I look healthier, and feel better, but according to the hip to waist ratio I am now at a .80... how is this possible? Ive lost a couple of inches... I don't get it...

[fairtalks]

For male take meaurnemt from belly button and for female take meaurnment from 2 inch above belly button.

[littlemschat]

But why do some people say the waist is at the belly button? My belly button is just above the lialac crest

[artisticafflair]

They are trying to do away with bmi's. You may he big boned naturally as well as naturally muscular, excluding being muscular from the gym. I struggle I am curvy but not because I eat like a pig, but because I have a slow metabolism. I struggle keeping weight off on 1, 300 Cal's daily.

[elliemcgrath]

1:19 is that chart referring to your waist or your midpoint? Why would it be about your waist? Everyone has a small waist. It's the midpoint that's the fattest part.

[mArtAndmr]

From what I've gathered though, for men, as long as your waist-to-hip ratio is less than 1, you would not be at high risk of getting medical problems.

[kathleenl.a]

i'm biggest at the mid-point, i thought the hips were higher, i have a similar body type to the girl in the video in terms or born structure and she looks biggest where it showed at the mid-point i thought those bones sticking out were the hips, it looks more like you were measuring waist to butt ratio as opposed to waist to hip.

[debora-jqrc]

I got 0.61
I'm 170cm and I weight 64 kg...

[bridgetandrews]

I have 30 inch waist and 35 inch hipe..so is mine one inch..is that ok.I have never heard of this before