In a word: the inconspicuous number of waist circumference is not small for health, and the waist-hip ratio can even predict the risk of premature death.
Do you know what your waist circumference is?
If the answer is yes, congratulations, you're in the top 10% who know more about your health. According to a survey conducted by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the weight awareness rate of mainland adult residents was 45.4%, and the waist circumference awareness rate was only 11.6%.
It's hard to imagine that more than half of the people don't know their weight, and nearly ninety percent don't know their waist circumference.
Waist-hip ratio: a judgment indicator of human health.
The most important meaning of knowing your waist circumference is to judge your health status in combination with your waist-hip ratio.
At the 58th European Diabetes Annual Meeting, Professor Irfan Khan of the School of Medicine and Health at the University of Cork, Ireland, suggested that the waist-hip ratio replace BMI as a measure of healthy weight, because the waist-hip ratio is a better predictor of the risk of early death.
The limitation of BMI is that it does not take into account differences in fat distribution, which is precisely the advantage of waist-hip ratio, which is a good indicator of the level of fat accumulation in the abdomen and visceral organs.
Measuring waist circumference, the difficulty of the first grade of elementary school students.
Waist circumference, the circumference of the thinnest part of the waist, reflects the condition of the visceral adipose tissue of the abdomen; Hip circumference, the circumference of the widest part of the hip, reflects the fat profile of the buttocks and the muscle mass of the lower extremities.
The ratio of these two circumferences is the waist-hip ratio.
In general, the waist circumference should be less than 85 cm for men and less than 80 cm for women; For advanced waist-hip ratios, it should be less than 0.9 for men and 0.8 for women.
Whether it's waist or hip circumference, it's easy to measure.
Waist circumference: stand with your feet together, raise your chin slightly, relax your body, measure when you exhale naturally, 0.5~1cm above the navel, the length of a circle.
Hip circumference: The length of a circle along the most prominent part of the hip.
The younger the age, the higher the income and the more advanced the health literacy.
Less than half of people know their weight, and only one in ten people know their waist circumference, so who knows more about their bodies?
According to statistics, the awareness rate decreases with age, with the increase of education level and family per capita annual income, the awareness rate of urban residents is generally higher than that of rural residents, the province with the highest awareness rate of weight is Shanghai, the highest waist circumference awareness rate is Tianjin, and the two lowest awareness rates are Hainan Province.
In this regard, the situation in the mainland is similar to that of developed countries, and the health literacy of residents is positively correlated with the level of economic development, which will undoubtedly increase the medical cost of less developed areas.
Finally, some people may wonder if just measuring waist circumference and calculating the waist-hip ratio will bring health?
I am afraid that this is the case, with a quantifiable supervision of their own health, people will have an internal motivation to pay attention to their diet and exercise habits.
Although at present, for indicators such as waist circumference and waist-hip ratio, only the medical community is paying more and more attention, most individuals do not pay attention to it at all. But isn't that what knowledge is? Through popular science, from the brains of professionals to the hearts of thousands of households. Above.
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