In the right column put in measurements of your chest neck waist and hips only for women in inches. The waist to height ratio to body fat percentage formula comes from relative fat mass rfm as a new estimator of whole body fat percentage a cross sectional study in american adult individuals orison o. For example a person with a 28 in 71 cm waist and 5 ft 7 in 170 cm height has a waistheight ratio of 042. Then just press the calculate button. In the top left hand column you should enter your height in feet slightly below enter your weight in pounds then enter your age and gender. Woolcott richard n.
The waist to height ratio calculator is a measure of your body fat distribution. 100 x 495 129579 035004 log 10 waist hip neck 022100 log 10 height 45. To use this calculator all you need to do is select your age range and just key in your height in cms or inchesand click submit and you will get the results for the ideal average chest. It should be less than 50 in healthy adults. The waist height ratio is calculated as waist measurement divided by height measurement w h. The caliper and dxa conversion methodology can be found inside our body fat.
100 x 495 10324 019077 log 10 waist neck 015456 log 10 height 45 for women si metrics centimeters the formula is 4. It should be less than 50 in healthy adults. Body fat percentage and dxa to caliper to conversion methodology. Bmi calculator is very simple to use.