Celebrity nutritionist Pooja Makhija suggests a simple rope technique to assess excess visceral fat, emphasizing waist-to-height ratio over BMI for Indians who may develop central obesity at lower weights. She advises a ratio of 0.5 or more indicates elevated metabolic risk. Dr. Sumit Arora, while noting imaging scans are the gold standard for visceral fat assessment, agrees that waist-to-height ratio is a valuable indicator of metabolic risk.