tight. looking sexy there, jack. he may have been on to something though. in an expose of sorts one magazine has learned the pants men are wearing might be lying to them. reporter: call it the tight truth. esquire magazine has discovered a secret technique used in the pants-making industry. it s called vanity sizing. in essence, what you think your waist size is in your favorite pair of slacks in many cases is a big, fat lie. for example, the clothing mega chain h&m size 36 dress pants actually measure out to 37 inches. calvin klein s 36 inch pants are 38 1/2 inches. and the gap leaves a gap in their measurements too. their 36 inch pants are missing an entire 3 inches. and the worst waistline offender? old navy. their 36 inch dress pants come up 5 inches light, with an accurate measurement of 41 inches. so we took to the streets to see
if men had ever been suspicious of all this vanity sizing. you know, it makes you think like you ve worked so hard to lose weight and to be fit and they re telling you the wrong size. i m hurt. i m hurt. i mean, i honestly don t know. i think i would just try it on. well, i noticed that from one brand to another it s different. from one store to another it s different. they tell me i m 31, it fits and it works, i m 31. they tell me 32 and it fits and it works i m fine with that too. reporter: these waist size white lies are no laughing matter. a report recently published in the archives of internal medicine show men with waist sizes of 47 inches or bigger have a greater risk of dying from a health-related issue. if you think your pants measure 42 to 47 inches you might want to take a tape measure with you the next time you go shopping.
more so than that, they found that somebody s waist size increased by four inches men and women alike, it increased their likelihood of dying from some sort of problem like heart disease and stroke and dying sooner than people who did not have the additional four inches along the waistline. 18% men, 25% women. you think about the fat. the subcutaneous fat everyone has to some degree around the midsection. that s not what is important. it s not so much what s on the outside. it s what s on the inside. here s a good way to visualize this. someone who doesn t have a lot of body fat over here. over here, not just the body fat on the outside but what s called visceral fat, fat around the inside of your body strangling your internal organs. that s the big problem here as well. lots of different advice. people think i want to reduce this body fat. so i want to do crunches or situps. that s probably not going to help. if you think of a whole body sort of workout, aerobic with n
50 to 75, a tape measure can be a good indicator of what s going onthat, when they found that someone s waist size actually increased by 4 inches, men and women alike, it increased their likelihood of dying from some sort of problem like heart disease or stroke and dying sooner than people who did not have those additional 4 inches, again, along the waistline. 18% in men, 25% in women. you think about fat, you think about the subcutaneous fat that everyone has i think to some degree around their mid section, that s not really what is important here. it s not so much what s on the outside but on the inside. and here s a good way to visualize this. you have someone who doesn t have a lot of body fat over here, and over here, in fact, not just the body fat on the outside, but what s called visceral fat, fat that s on the s inside of your body that is literally strangling your internal organs. that s the problem here, as well. you re going to get lots of different advice. one thing people
long time. i guess other people close to him don t think he looks that great. that s mean. oh, man, i guess, a bride wants to control every aspect of the wedding, right down to the waist size of her dad s tux. how do you go to dad, can you slim it down a little bit? get with the program. oprah winfrey sat down to talk with rielle hunter, the mistress of john edwards. she talked about the former candidate s life of integrity and also says she is not a home wrecker because it is not my experience that a third party wrecks a home. oprah asked hunter how she felt when the affair ended and about the sex tape that the couple made together. i assumed that she was standing there when he said that. and he was that traumatic state, his worlds just collided and he