Relative risk of CHD
No significant association between risk of CHD and total carbohydrate, sucrose, or fructose intake
Quintile of intake ...
An estimated relative risk of developing liver disease was determined at an intake of 1 - 6 alcoholic beverages per week, with a steep increase in risk above this intake.
Use the BMI to classify overweight and obesity and to estimate relative risk of disease compared to normal weight.
The waist circumference should be used to assess abdominal fat content.
Now, when you consider the BMI and waist circumference together, you get a pretty good idea of a person's relative risk of disease (compared to a person of "normal" weight).
"If you compare people who have a healthy lifestyle to people with an unhealthy lifestyle, the people with the healthy lifestyle have low relative risk and the people with the unhealthy lifestyle have high relative risk, ...
"Few chemicals have been studied epidemiologically to the same extent as artificial sweeteners have been. The remarkable approximation to unity of the summary relative risk from all studies is impressive, ...
 See also: Risk, Fat, Health, Nutrition, Eating
  
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