Christel and Dunn concluded that women’s waist size has grown by 2.6 inches over the past 21 years. Forbes notes, however, that it is difficult to nail down women’s sizing, as there is no ...

However, for women, the waist circumference that can lead to lower mortality risk is way above the standard health waist size. For ages, scientists have spoken about the dangers of visceral fat ...

Men rate women as most attractive when they have a waist size that is 60 to 70 percent of their hip size, the late psychologist Devendra Singh found in a series of pioneering studies begun 20 ...

For women, the link between waist size and BMI was less strong. However, both a 12cm increase in waist circumference and a 4.3 increase in BMI - moving from 24 to 28 - were associated with a 13 ...

and not explained by high body size alone, as measured by BMI. Among women, the associations were weaker and similar for both WC and BMI. For example, both an increase of about 12 cm in waist ...

The size of a man’s waistband is ... of cancer beyond the standard BMI increase. For women, the associations were weaker and similar for both waist circumference and BMI. It found that both ...