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Your waist should be less than half your
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height. So, half of that string should
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go around the fattest bit of your belly.
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I have this piece of string here. Yes.
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And which is I guess a mechanism you use
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to figure out if people's
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waist and I guess fat levels are too
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high on the on the belly? I think it's
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bigger than that. I'm interested in
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low-cost ways for people to find out,
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"Well, how are you doing?" One
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recognized way looking at metabolic
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health is
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your waist should be less than half your
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height. So, if we have a piece of
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string, which we have there, I believe
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you're 6'1". Yes. And you've you've
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marked halfway, so half of that string
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should go around the fattest bit of your
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belly. Cut it in half, and then let's
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see will it go around your belly, yes or
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no? Okay, so I've cut the the string in
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half.
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>> Yes. Which part of my belly? The fattest
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part.
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>> part, okay.
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>> Yeah, so be honest about the fat part.
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Okay. Can I look? Yeah.
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You did it. Yeah. Is that
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Are you squeezing in now? No, I'm not.
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Are you squee- Are you cheating? Let me
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see.
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I mean, it's it's not Yeah,
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>> [laughter]
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>> it's it's Yeah,
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you've just done it. You passed. You
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passed.
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>> It's so interesting, isn't
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>> That's so funny.
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>> In the in But that is a very interesting
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thing for you. And as I say, it's
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insulin resistance tends to put weight
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on your belly. But you may have a very
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muscular abdomen. Let's pretend it's
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that, you know. Yeah, but you just about
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got there. But it's a really simple test
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for everybody at home. Piece [snorts] of
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string
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as long as you are tall, cut it in half,
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will it or will it not go around your
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middle? Okay, so everybody at home go
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buy some string. Yeah. And it's I mean,
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there's lots of other things you can do,
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but that that's a a simple
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a simple way because your weight alone
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as I said, it's where the fat is
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distributed. Fat on your belly is more
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worrying than fat on your legs or on
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your arms, really.
