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I recently had a DEXA scan at 60 that showed I'm under 8% body fat with almost zero visceral fat—but there was another number I care about: my waist‑to‑hip ratio. That's something you can measure at home with just a tape. For men, a ratio under 0.9 is considered low risk for cardiometabolic disease, while ratios over 1.0 with your waist bigger than your hips are linked to a much higher risk of early death.
Visible abs are nice, but the real win is low visceral fat and a favorable waist‑to‑hip ratio, because those are strongly tied to lower rates of diabetes, heart disease, and overall mortality as we age. Grab a tape measure your waist at the narrowest point and hips at the widest, and divide the waist by the hip, and track that number as it goes down; your health risk does too.
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