Medicine - Health
3 quick and accurate ways to check your health
Resting your waist or heart rate are two quick and easy tests that will help you determine if your current weight is reasonable.
Waist Circumference
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Medicine - Health
Guess the disease by measurements of hips and waist circumference
We already know that a BMI (overall body mass index) that is excessively high may be a sign of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Recently another sign is concerned, w…
Cancer
The risk of breast cancer is directly proportional to the excess fat in the waist area
According to the researchers, each increase of 0.1 units in the ratio between waist and hip increases the risk of breast cancer and a range of other diseases by 21%.
Cancer
The more waist circumference increases, the higher the rate of liver cancer
A new study shows that every waist increases to 5.08cm, the risk of liver cancer is difficult to detect will increase to 10%.