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 ...

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 Daily Mail’s latest ‘scientific’ offering on women’s bodies is at best insulting and, at worst, incredibly damaging. Heidi Scrimgeour explains why we need to stop ignoring the real ...

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 ...

Wrap it around your waist just above your hip bones. "For women, 35 inches or more means you're at risk for health problems stemming from visceral fat," they said. "For men, the number is 40 ...

A tiny size 4 - a "0" in America where she does much of her retail shopping - Mrs Beckham's waist is 11 inches smaller than that of the average British woman. To put that in perspective ...

She noted that Kapoor has never explicitly expressed a desire to lose weight, focusing instead on maintaining overall fitness and occasionally adjusting her waist size. "Kareena is the most aware ...

In women, however, the links were less pronounced and showed similar waist circumference and BMI patterns. Why is waist size prediction more effective in men? While women generally have fat spread ...

Waist circumference is a stronger predictor of obesity-related cancer risk than BMI in men, but not in women, due to ...