Create Date: September 26, 2024
Last Modified Date: December 4, 2024
Calculating waist to hip ratio involves both your waist and hip measurements. The formula for calculating this ratio is:
Your result will be a single number. This number represents the ratio between your hip and waist. For example, if you hip and waist are the same measurement then the ratio would 1 since they are each the same. However, if your waist measures 34 inches and your hips are only 17 inches, the ratio would be 2 since your waist is double your hip measurement.
Using our waist to hip ratio tool is very easy and simple. To use it you must:
Let's walk through how someone would use this tool to find their waist to hip ratio. They would first need to get their waist and hip measurements. They find that their waist is 34 inches and their hips are 39 inches. They will have to enter 34 into the first field and then 39 into the second field.
They can now hit calculate and get their waist to hip ratio of .87.
According to the WHO, a healthy ratio for a woman is .85 or less while for a man anything under .9 is considered healthy.
People who are more curvy tend to have a waist to hip ratio closer to 0.7.
It is not necessarily better, but it can give a slightly different outlook on a person's health as it takes more of the abdominal fat into account. Both can be used, depending on the person's goals and their belief in these metrics.
A waist to hip ratio difference can generally be easily identified by men, depending on the amount of clothing worn at the time, the distance between them, and other environmental factors.
