alt Hacker NewsI believe evidence points towards absolute level of fat being more important than % for overall health.
E.g. 20% bodyfat at 250lbs is still a lot of fat.
Of course it's difficult to ever get very high on absolute fat if at 15% or below.
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porknubbins • today at 1:17 AM
Its not just absolute amount of fat though you also have to account for intra abdominal fat being much worse metabolically than subcutaneous fat.
andreareina • yesterday at 11:55 PM
Do you have a citation for that? I've had thoughts in a similar direction (specifically around the upper/lower intervention points) but have had no luck finding data.
numpad0 • yesterday at 10:46 PM
Does that have to do with sizes of the heart and few other organs apparently being largely constant regardless of height?
Not sure I follow the logic here, but happy to be proven wrong if I'm misunderstanding. It's not intuitive to me that a 300 lb. person at 20% body fat is generally at the same risk as a 200 lb. person at 30% body fat.