Pointless Studies
ScienceDaily: Waist-to-Hip Ratio Affects Breathing In The Morbidly Obese
Canadian researchers from McGill University gathered arterial blood samples from 25 morbidly obese patients who were scheduled for bariatric surgery. Age, body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, waist circumference, and W/H ratio were recorded. According to the study, large W/H ratios indicate substantial portions of fat mass surrounding the thorax, which could lead to ventilation abnormalities.
Excuse me, but what is the point of this? For the morbidly obese, breathing difficulty should be a signal to lose weight, with the waist-hip ratio being next to irrelevant. You can change the waist-hip ratio by adding weight on the hips, and I somehow don’t think doing that would help anyone breathe.