Thick thighs............not so bad after all

Is this related to waist to hip ratio correlating with lower risk of diseases?

66cm alas although my thighs are quite muscular and always have been i can certainly say there is a fair bit of flab on them at present :sad:

I've always hated my thighs but now if I could just get then toned n smoothed out I'd love them!

I wouldn't mind having thicker thighs.

They are currently 56cm at their widest.

Thicker Thighs = Improved Health?
by Ryan Halvorson
... a world where thin is in, scientists are suggesting that thicker thighs could mean better health. A study published in the Harvard ...
In a world where thin is in, scientists are suggesting that thicker thighs could mean better health. A study published in the Harvard Men’s Health Watch newsletter (www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Mens_Health_Watch/2012/January) involved 2,816 apparently healthy men and women aged 35–65. Each participant was measured for height and weight and for thigh, hip and waist circumference. Subjects were tracked for 12.5 years on average.

Rest of article reads: Participants with a measurement of 62cm of the thigh were determined to have a lower risk of heart disease and lower risk of premature death.

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I've seen similar discussions before. Doesn't it relate to pear shaped vs apple shaped i.e how fat tends to be distributed on the body? Guessing this might help to assess that relationship in men as well as women.

That's what I thought, if you store more fat in your thighs, it means less in your midsection (which is the most dangerous place to store fat apparently)

This is reassuring. My thighs are definitely of the "thunder" variety and to be honest, I've actually always liked them! They were fatty when I started my journey, but now a lot of fat is gone I have some muscle definition that is making me fall in love.

As far as being healthy, I think it is just that those who store fat on their thighs usually don't store as much on their gut. Belly fat has been correlated to higher cardiac and diabetic mortality. So storing less there would generally reduce those risks. As far as comparing the mortalities between healthy, non obese people, makes these findings a little more interesting. Did they say the width difference was muscle or fat?

I'm in the process of learning to love mine!

69.9 :grumble: Although I still have a lot to lose I've given up on ever having slim thighs, they've always been strong no matter what I've weighed and the fronts of my thighs have a massive curve of muscle, all the fat is on the inner/backs. I don't mind it until it comes to shopping for trousers, recently anything snug on the thighs is loose on the waist :grumble: