“Keeping your waist circumference to less than half your height can help increase life expectancy for every person in the world,” according to Margaret Ashwell, an independent consultant and former science director of the British Nutrition Foundation. Brad Pilon, of Eat Stop Eat fame, discusses this issue at length in his digital book, Dieting for Muscle Growth. He takes this a step further and notes that if your waist is over the one-half measure of your height, you might be suffering from a variety of inflammation issues.
