How To Measure Your Waist In 4 Simple Steps | Diabetes UK

You might be wondering what waist measurement has to do with your risk of type 2 diabetes. Or what a healthy waist size is.

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[leonardcharlesnew]

Perfect explanation with no rambling- thank you 🙏

[nittyjee]

For how to measure the waist, this is by far the best explanation I've seen. I've looked through a lot, the key help here was mentioning that it may not cross your belly button. This was driving me nuts, for me it's a pretty big difference with it being parallel to the ground, not slanted across my belly button. Also the midpoint was marked on the side rather then a rough squeeze with the fingers, and how I should breathe and the tension of the tape, all of it, thank you. Not sure about the ethnicity thing though, I'd think that has more to do with height, but maybe people do hold fat differently in different places.

[andrewthehope]

Excellent video! You explained it very clearly. Thank you!

[anilphilip]

This was the best and clearest instruction I found. Thank you. Do you have a video on hip measurement also?

[bradleycotton]

Thank you sir. Very easy to understand and informative video

[marklittler]

Keeping your mind occupied with tasks like housework, family, hobbies and careers and away from food is probably best having a dog that needs walks helps too. It's all psychology at the end of the day.

[PHDiaz-vvyo]

As a GP, I usually leave the “simple” stuff to my Diabetes nurse. But I had to do mine recently based on recent bloods. And it was shocking. Already started carb reduction plan

[silvanapetrozzi]

What I can’t understand is I’m underweight with a low bmi but my waist to height ratio says I’m overweight! How can that be?

[newagehero]

But how to tell if you're waist is getting slimmer like do the numbers go down or what?

[putdislikehere]

I wonder how many doctors who had specialized in studying diabetes are having diabetes. Haven't they got it all wrong?

[sharmcity]

Why do people always conflate South Asia and south East Asia? Including this presumably south Asian guy here.

Is he talking about people from Vietnam, Thailand, etc. or India, Pakistan, etc.?

Also, these absolute numbers without regards to height or lean body mass are flawed. I understand there is a real issue of diabetes and heart disease among south Asians, strongly correlated with visceral belly fat, but a measurement is relative.

35 inches assumes that all south Asian men are small boned, have little muscle mass, or are 5’10” or shorter.... which is not true

[soultree]

Southeast Asian men have different number but not women 🤷‍♀️

[hreem]

😂 with shirt it will show 3cm more.and u talk of accuracy 😂😂😂

[chrisdias]

How poor that they didn’t use the waist to height ratio rather than just a waist measurement. Look it up on YouTube.

[nn-ujiv]

A guy with a 38 inch waist giving advice on weight loss!