Meaning of apple-shaped | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having the shape of an apple, or in cross section, like the cross section of an apple, or somewhat suggestive of it; especially with regard to top-heavy apple varieties rather than thoroughly round ones.
2. Having android fat distribution, not gynoid fat distribution.

Examples

“pear-shaped obesity versus apple-shaped obesity”

“Even at BMIs above 30, where obesity begins, men and women whose waist-to-hip ratio identified them as more pear-shaped were less likely to die -- of any cause and of cardiovascular causes -- than those with similar BMIs who were apple-shaped.”

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