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"Warning Over Women's 'Apple-Shaped' Figures"

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Ain't Nobody Here Eggsistentialist

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Was reading about this on Sky News and on reading this quote:

The majority of British women would be classed as a "high health risk" because their waist measures 5cm (2in) more than the recommendation of 80cm (31.5in) or less, the research said.

 

thought I'd measure my waist. I don't consider myself very overweight (although I could lose a bit of flab from my tummy) so was very unpleasantly surprised to find my measurement is well over what they recommend :? .

 

Tell me I'm not alone :pray::lol: .

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I saw the bbc breakfast article this morning. They had a young, fit and healthy woman who goes to gym and takes dance classes etc and was over the recommended size. I on the other hand never go to gym, only dance ( badly) at weddings and parties ( twice a year max) and do little else than walk, garden and chase after kids and my waist fit the preferred size. Something wrong with the research me thinks! xxx

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The Dogmother Eggsistentialist

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What I don't understand is how they can give a measurement just like that... I'd assume that it's all relative so a bigger proportioned person could have a waist measurement over 31.5" but still be a pear if their hips and chest are bigger. For example one of the girls at work is 6 foot tall and very curvy, her waist is over that figure but her 'other bits' are correspondingly bigger too.

 

Not measured myself and don't intend to worry about it.

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The Dogmother Eggsistentialist

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My waist is 25½ and my hips 34½ and I know I'm not a pear shape, so not sure what I am :?

 

Reading between the line, I think that the general guide is that if you're narrower on top and bigger around the hips, then you're pear-shaped. Apple-shaped is if you're bigger (proportionally) around the tum. basically, storing yer podge around your tum as opposed to bum isn't healthy.

 

They've been saying this for years, and now there's a fuss... must be a slow news day on Fleet Street :roll:

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chickencam SUPER CHICKEN!!!

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Another apple here. I have always had a tummy bulge though even when I was 16 and weighed 7 st and was very fit.

 

My measurement came out at 33 with tummy held in 35 without, I am a little overweight, but still have a waist at the sides just not at the front :roll: Front view ok profile view :roll:

 

I thought that it was interesting that even the slim presenter had a waist of 29 with her tummy held in and she recently did a marathon. Some women are bigger built than others, my ED has a friend who is 6' 2" and has a large frame but "Ooops, word censored!"ody would call her overweight, she is well proportioned and ED herself is a size 10 but has a broad back and shoulders that makes her wider at the sides, but she has a flat stomach. I understand that being overweight is unhealthy but do they have to give women more body issues to worry about than we already have. :evil:

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sadietoo Chatty Chicken

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I heard this and just thought thanks a lot , and what can I do about that then.? They seem to be implying that you can magically change your body shape. I am not overweight but have never been, and will never be, pear shaped...if your bone structure doesn't allow for it then it won't happen. IMO they may as well say that people with blue eyes are more likely to have health issues. More importantly they should be educating people to eat less rubbish and lots less sugar, so that we'd have less diabetes etc and then fewer of us would need to worry about what body shape nature has bestowed upon us....grrrr

 

and jumps off soap box..... (sorry not having a good day!)

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