You'll insert gender, height, weight and waist size, and the app determines both fat and muscle percentages.

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The health risks increase with the BMI count, and also with waist size.

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There are several other ways of estimating body fat other than BMI and waist size, which your doctor can help you with.

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Welch started to become depressed and ashamed of his increasing waist size.

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She needs to reduce her waist size a bit more, which she can do by doing more muscle-strengthening exercise to lower her percentage of body fat.

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His father had a size-28 waist when he met Sale's mother.

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Mother helpfully points out that, while Yosef's waist is a medium, the waist of these jeans appears to be size XXXL. The waistband cuts across Yosef's thighs.

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Brylane, one of the market leaders, sells clothes up to size 60, and finds that a third of its large-size business is in 28 (ie, a 45-inch waist) and over.

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