Watch your waist

Published: January 1, 2011

If most of your fat is around your waist, your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes increases. The risk rises for women with waist sizes greater than 35 inches and for men with greater than 40 inches.

Here's how to measure accurately: Stand and place a tape measure around your middle, just above your hipbones. Exhale. Measure.

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National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

If most of your fat is around your waist, your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes increases. The risk rises for women with waist sizes greater than 35 inches and for men with greater than 40 inches. Here’s how to measure accurately: Stand and place a tape measure around your middle, just above your hipbones. Exhale. Measure.

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