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Body shape

One way of looking at body shape, that's increasingly popular, is to categorize people as either apples or pears. With our body shape tools you can find out for yourself.

The apple or pear body shape is easy to describe - women typically collect fat in their hips and buttocks, and thus have the "pear" body shape. Men more often collect weight around their bellies, and are thus "apples".

This is important to clarify, because "apples", those with fat concentrated around the abdomen, are more likely to develop many of the health problems related to obesity.

The quick way to know if you're an "apple" or a "pear" is to test your waist-to-hip ratio - simply divide your waist measurement by your hip measurement. Women with waist-to-hip ratios of more than 0.8, or men with waist-to-hip ratios of more than 1.0 are "apples" and are at increased health risk due to their fat distribution.

Why not take a quick look at our Personalised Weight Loss for starters.