{"id":1591,"date":"2008-11-12T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:43:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:43:02","slug":"waist-hip-ratio-better-than-bmi-in-predicting-health-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Waist-hip ratio better than BMI in predicting health risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date from the EPPIC study has confirmed that simple measurements of the waist and hips may offer a better way of predicting obesity-related death than a standard, but more complicated, system of relating weight to height (BMI). Researchers have begun building a case that it is better to look at waist circumference or the ratio of waist size to hip size. Other resent stories based on same research: Excess Weight Ups Risk of Death, No Matter Where It Collects (see http:\/\/www.healthscout.com\/news\/1\/621314\/main.html), Large Waist Can Almost Double Your Risk Of Premature Death (see http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/11\/081112194915.htm) and Belly Fat Doubles Death Risk (see http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/news\/20081112\/belly-fat-doubles-death-risk).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/healthNews\/idUSTRE4AB92120081112?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=healthNews\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date from the EPPIC study has confirmed that simple measurements of the waist and hips may offer a better way of predicting obesity-related death than a standard, but more complicated, system of relating weight to height (BMI). Researchers have begun building a case that it is better to look at waist circumference or the ratio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}