{"id":28396,"date":"2021-04-01T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=28396"},"modified":"2021-04-01T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:17:35","slug":"waist-to-hip-ratio-is-stronger-predictor-of-health-than-bmi-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/waist-to-hip-ratio-is-stronger-predictor-of-health-than-bmi-finds-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Waist-to-hip ratio is stronger predictor of health than BMI, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27968\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tape-measure-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People with a normal BMI who carry extra weight around their middle are at a greater risk of death compared to those who carry their weight elsewhere, a new\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/news-events\/news\/2017\/april\/people-with-a-normal-bmi-who-carry-weight-around-the-middle-at-greatest-risk-of-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"52\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:52,&quot;p&quot;:48,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:4}\">study<\/a> has found.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/wellness\/waist-to-hip-ratio-is-stronger-predictor-of-health-than-bmi-finds-study\/ar-BB1f6SUs?ocid=msedgntp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>People with a normal BMI who carry extra weight around their middle are at a greater risk of death compared to those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28397,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396\/revisions\/28397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}