Tag: BMI
(Vegetables, Tips to Grow Your Own Food)
Considering getting a spot in a community garden? Fresh veggies you grow on your own, yum — and how rewarding!
Plus, a study conducted by researchers at the University of Utah has found that people who are community gardeners tend to have a lower BMI than those who don’t garden. For a 5’5″ female community gardener, the BMI was 1.84 less (or 11 lbs) compared to those not gardening.
Almost makes me want to get a plot to garden. Almost. I’ve got the opposite of a green thumb, though, and that’ll will keep me getting produce at the farmers market instead…even though it’d be nice to have a reason to get and wear these cute boots.
Women’s rainboot, Bogs.
April 27, 2013
Move over, BMI, there’s a new measurement in town.
A better predictor than BMI (that’s body-mass index, of course) of certain health risks is WtHR aka waist-to-height ratio. The findings, which are being presented at the 19th European Congress for Obesity, show that WtHR is better at detecting risk factors for conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, abnormal body fat levels and metabolic syndrome.
This suggests WtHR could be used as a screening tool for determining health risks, and the research shows that:
Your waist circumference should be less than half your height.
(Did that ratio make you pause? I know my gut reaction was to question it — but with our super-size-me lifestyles the world over, it’s not uncommon for one’s waist circumference to be greater than half one’s height).
Just another handy health tool your standard tape measure can be used for.
Although I kinda prefer a tape like the one above.
(Measuring tape mantra print, Modern Girl Blitz)
May 15, 2012
That’s right, shake ‘em buns!
Rather than weighing ‘em buns. What am I getting at? A lot of people, present company included, fret more about the number on the scale than we do about how fit we are. My weight’s stayed the same since I started running, and do I find that frustrating? Hellz yeah. Even though I’m obviously fitter (I sure don’t huff and puff as much as I used to and I’m much faster).
It’s how fit we are that may be as key (perhaps even more important) than our actual weight when it comes to lowering our mortality and heart disease risks, says a study conducted at the University of South Carolina School of Public Health. See, weight’s not necessarily a direct reflection of how fit we are (consider the muscle tone you gain when you become fitter, for example); you can read more about the study in the link above.
(the sign, btw, is one I photographed in Hong Kong this summer)
(and does anyone else have that Mystikal song stuck in their head now? Nope? Just me. OK.)
December 6, 2011
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