www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23809574
Long story short. If your waist measurement is more than half your height, or indeed over 38inches, then you will die a horrible horrible death by tea time. Ah, ok, a little hyperbole.
I'm 71 inches tall and 38 inches around the waist, so it's been nice knowing you.
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Oh bother - I'm dead already!
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The solution is to put on some height.
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Eh, I don't know where my waist is tbh but, wifey measured it and reckons on 41 inches, and I'm 6ft tall.
RIP
Nah, that can't be right, my jeans are 36" and they aren't tight!
Last edited by: Dog on Sat 24 Aug 13 at 16:43
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Where exactly should we measure, level with the navel or at the widest point?
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Waist of 34 in winter, down to 32 by the end of summer when I've cut the bowling green about 100 times.
And 5 ft 11. A skinny pup by the sound of it.
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I have no idea, I am 5.11 and wear 34 jeans but they are a bit too wide so have to wear them with a belt, 32 is too tight. I do have a belly though.
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>> Nah, that can't be right, my jeans are 36" and they aren't tight!
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Um...er...do they sit under the gut........ or do they go around it?
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>> 32" waist, 6' tall.
We were asking about you, not the lamppost outside your bedroom window
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>> We were asking about you, not the lamppost outside your bedroom window
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Miaow!
I've been like that since I was 18.
Last edited by: Robin Regal on Sat 24 Aug 13 at 18:23
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I am a shade under 6 foot, and I can get a 36inch belt above my hips (under my gut) so I am bang on the money.
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Waist 34 and five feet nine so right on the margin.
Question for Zero and RP; did you add or lose weight after stopping work?
Just about to sign up for voluntary redundancy so the daily London bike sprint stops in November.
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>> Waist 34 and five feet nine so right on the margin.
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>> Question for Zero and RP; did you add or lose weight after stopping work?
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>> Just about to sign up for voluntary redundancy so the daily London bike sprint stops
>> in November.
No, if anything my weight has trimmed a bit. No more bacon sarnie breakfasts, lunches, afternoon sticky buns with my colleagues. Plus more dog walking.
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>>Question for Zero and RP; did you add or lose weight after stopping work?
It wasn't retiring that did it for me, it was not getting another dog.
Put on two stone!
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>> I am a shade under 6 foot, and I can get a 36inch belt above
>> my hips (under my gut) so I am bang on the money.
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You can't put a belt on a funnel!!!!
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>>Um...er...do they sit under the gut........ or do they go around it?
Haha! - good point of course piggy but, I haven't got a gut as such, still none the wiser how to actually measure ones waist though?
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As RR - 6ft tall 32in jeans, no gut. And at 88kg (just under 14st) not a lamp post either.
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I have a 36 inch waist 1.85 Tall just over 6ft.About 13 stone. I am happy now with my weight.I used to be about 16 stone 42 inch waist.
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Height 1.70m
Waist 81cms
BMI 23
Weight 11 stone 4lbs.
"Finely honed " is how Michelangelo described my body when I modelled for him as a Greek discus thrower..................
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well i suppose not having any hair shaves a few kilos off.l...
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>> As RR - 6ft tall 32in jeans, no gut. And at 88kg (just under 14st)
>> not a lamp post either.
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Bit of a poker compared to me then Mark, 65kg dripping wet. I look like a top class Tour de France mountain specialist, unfortunately never rode like one :-(
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Sorry chaps but what's all this '36" below the gut so I'm all right'? The gut is what this (crude) test is about: if you have one you'll die sooner than if you don't. A slightly more sophisticated model is waist at or below 85% (I think - might be 90%) of hips, the idea being that hips (in men anyway) are bony and reflect natural frame size. Height is scarcely relevant.
In any case, modern trousers are cut to fit on the hip bones, not at the waist, so they're no guide to your true waist measurement. Tim Harford of More or Less did a fearless exposé on this in the last series. Should still be available on the BBC site.
And another thing: that gut-over-34"-trousers-'cos-that's-what-I've-worn-since-I-was-21 look fools no-one and looks awful. If you can't get your belt horizontal, buy some bigger trousers!
}:---)
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The correct ratio is 91%.
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I'm always a bit chary of "the experts say". Look at the "five a day" thing for example, where the original "experts" were the California fruit and veg growers association who had this great wheeze for selling more product.
That's not to say I don't think there's a benefit in fruit and veg, just that it's all a bit unclear at the foundations. Like organic. Anyway.
So, in that intrepid spirit it's trivial to google for the opposite viewpoint and find apparently scientific evidence that says there is no statistical evidence that waist measurement has any effect on, well, anything much really.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17956544
But it's like green issues. Endless science telling you opposite things, and eventually you have to decide if you want to go with the consensus or not.
Edit. Scratch that one. Actually it says it doesn't matter where you measure, not that it had no effect.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Mon 26 Aug 13 at 11:26
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