You should calculate your abdominal obesity index rather than your BMI
Forget BMI calculators for weight loss… there’s a simple way to find out if you’re too fatBELLY fat is the most dangerous kind because it can smother and put pressure on our vital organs.Forget BMI calculators - experts say you need to be measuring your waist-to-chest ratio if you want to lose weightForget your BMI and waist-to-hip measurements, you need to start calculating your abdominal obesity index .
All you have to do is measure around your belly at the widest point and around your chest . You then divide the volume of your belly segment by your chest volume .So if you're a man who has a waist size of 39 and a chest of 42, your ABOI would be 1.15. The lower, the better. And the point is that it's not concerned with your total body weight, height or body shape - it just focuses on central obesity.
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