Loss of muscle mass is associated with aging. It is also associated with the metabolic syndrome, together with excessive body fat gain. It i...
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Showing posts with label BMI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BMI. Show all posts
Low bone mineral content in older Eskimos: Meat-eating or shrinking?
Mazess & Mather (1974) is probably the most widely cited article summarizing evidence that bone mineral content in older North Alaskan E...
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Body mass index and cancer deaths in various US states
Ancel Keys is often heavily criticized for allegedly originating the fat phobia that we see today in the US and other countries, perhaps wit...
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The man who ate 25 eggs per day: What does this case really tell us?
Many readers of this blog have probably heard about the case of the man who ate approximately 25 eggs (20 to 30) per day for over 15 years (...
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The 14-percent advantage of eating little and then a lot: Putting it in practice
In my previous post I argued that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energy expenditure by a ce...
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The 14-percent advantage of eating little and then a lot: Is it real?
BMI,
body fat,
energy expenditure,
fasting,
intermittent fasting,
NEAT,
overfeeding,
starvation,
weight loss
When you look at the literature on overfeeding, you see a number over and over again – 14 percent. That is approximately the increase in ene...
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How can carrying some extra body fat be healthy?
Most of the empirical investigations into the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality suggest that the lowest-mortality BM...
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Waist-to-weight ratios in pictures: The John Stone transformation
John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and stats of his remark...
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The lowest-mortality BMI: What is the role of nutrient intake from food?
BMI,
body fat,
calorie restriction,
longevity,
mortality,
multivariate analysis,
muscle gain,
muscle loss
In a previous post ( ), I discussed the frequently reported lowest-mortality body mass index (BMI), which is about 26. The empirical results...
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An illustration of the waist-to-weight ratio theory: The fit2fat2fit experiment
In my previous blog post, I argued that one’s optimal weight may be the one that minimizes one’s waist-to-weight ratio. I built this argum...
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Men who are skinny-fat: There are quite a few of them
The graph below (from Wikipedia) plots body fat percentage (BF) against body mass index (BMI) for men. The data is a bit old: 1994. The top-...
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Waist-to-weight ratio vs. body max index
The optimal waist / weight ratio (WWR) theory ( ) is one of the most compatible with evidence regarding the lowest mortality body mass ind...
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The lowest-mortality BMI: What is its relationship with fat-free mass?
Do overweight folks live longer? It is not uncommon to see graphs like the one below, from the Med Journal Watch blog ( ), suggesting that, ...
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What is your optimal weight? Maybe it is the one that minimizes your waist-to-weight ratio
There is a significant amount of empirical evidence suggesting that, for a given individual and under normal circumstances, the optimal we...
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