How to check if your weight is a health threat?

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The endocrinologist told how to check if excess weight threatens your health yu.

Excessive weight is not only an aesthetic problem. This is also a lot of health risks, the whole body suffers from excess weight. How to understand how much your weight threatens you personally?

The most famous and widely used method of calculation is the body mass index. BMI is the ratio of body weight (in kg) to the square of height (in meters). Using this does not always allow to assess the presence of obesity. With a normal BMI, a person may have a reduced amount of muscle mass and excess fat,” the expert notes.

A much more objective method of detecting obesity is a bioimpedance study. In this case, a body analysis is performed to measure the amount of fat and muscle tissue, and the amount of fluid is also assessed.

However, this method is not available to everyone today. In this case, a very simple and accessible method is considered quite informative – you just need to measure your waist with a centimeter tape.

For men, the indicator should not exceed 94 cm, for women – 80 cm.

If your results are even 1 cm more, this may indicate a decrease in the level of sex hormones, vitamin D deficiency, reduced thyroid function, excess insulin.

In such cases, there is an increased risk of possible obesity, but cardiovascular pathologies, and even diabetes.