Endocrinologist Natalya Liberanskaya told how to check if being overweight threatens your health.
Overweight is not only an aesthetic problem. This is also a lot of health risks, the whole body suffers from excess weight. How to understand how much your weight threatens you personally?
“The most famous and widely used calculation method is the body mass index. BMI is the ratio of body weight (in kg) to the square of height (in meters). The use of this method does not always allow to assess the presence of obesity. With a normal BMI, a person can have a reduced amount of muscle mass and have excess fat, ”the expert notes.
A bioimpedance study is a much more objective method for detecting obesity. In this case, the body is analyzed for the amount of fat, muscle tissue, and the volume of fluid is also estimated.
However, this method is not available for everyone today. In this case, a very simple and accessible method is considered quite informative – you just need to measure the volume of your waist with a centimeter tape.
For men, the figure should not exceed 94 cm, for women – 80 cm.
If your results are even 1 cm more, this may indicate a decrease in the level of sex hormones, vitamin D deficiency, reduced thyroid function, excess insulin.
In these cases, the risk of not only possible obesity, but also cardiovascular pathologies is increased as well as diabetes. 
Natalya Liberanskaya Healthy lifestyle Endocrinologist