Carrying too much weight around your waist can cause health problems. Your health is affected by where you store body fat, even if you have a healthy weight or a normal body mass index (BMI).

The hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive and better able to deal with stress also tend to redistribute fat from the hips to the waist, according to one anthropologist. So in ...

The relationship between belly size and hip size appears to be a more useful measure of health risk than the widely used body-mass index, or BMI. According to a study published in The Lancet, a ...

LOS ANGELES - A new study is calling into question the validity of body mass index (BMI) as a practical way of measuring healthy weight in patients. Researchers for the European Association for the ...

Backround: Morbidly obese individuals (ie, body mass index [BMI], ≥ 40 kg/m 2) may have a pulmonary gas exchange impairment due to the large fat mass surrounding their abdomen. Purpose: To examine the ...

Get out the measuring tape. Your waist-to-hip ratio may beat the scale at predicting heart disease, a British study shows. The study is the latest research linking belly fat to heart risk. The ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) Volume 17, Issue 6, on May 30, 2025, titled "Impact of waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratios on physical performance: insights from the ...

New Delhi: India plans to roll-out a nationwide screening programme for measuring obesity among school children officials aware of the matter said. Children will be measured for their waist-to-hip ...