See how your waistline can give you a guide to health risks in white people in particular your risk for type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, or hypertension.The waist sizes for other ethnic groups have not been fully defined.
See what happens to the page background and think of your waist size like a health traffic light!!!
Are you red amber or green??!!!
1.Enter your sex
2.Enter your waistline in inches OR in centimetres AND choose from the drop down menu 
3.Click the button
For the medical basis of this article
click to see this BMJ article
  • Did you know that if you diet for every kilo of weight loss you are likely to lose 1 cm from your waist? In other words if you lose five and half pounds you will likely lose an inch round your waist!!
  • Did you know that if you are a man and your waist puts you in the high risk group you have an over 40% risk of diabetes and a 60% risk of cholesterol problems or hypertension and a 30% risk of having shortness of breath?