Researchers often use average (mean) sizes in men to assess the general health of the male population.
Certain averages, like your height, are unchangeable.
To achieve better health, you generally need to do better than the average.
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This is technically the threshold by which a man isconsidered to be obese.
Central obesity indicates that you have excessivevisceral fatin your abdomen.
If the WHR calculation is more than 0.90, you are said to have central obesity.
Average Body Composition
Body composition is the distribution of fat and muscle in your body.
In both cases, this is above what would generally be considered healthy.
With age and natural declines in testosterone, the percentage tends to decrease.
All of these averages are well below what is considered to be healthy.
Wearing anexternal condomthat is too small is not only uncomfortable but also increases the risk of bursting.
Both of these problems increase the risk of unintended pregnancy andsexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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