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Why body type standards are misleading in assessing health

The Podcast by KevinMD

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Is There a Straight Line to Account for Skinny Fat?

Apple Health app, it's currently called lean body mass. The problem with that is so someone like me who still has skinny fat on my body after years of weightlifting and working to add as much muscle as possible. One pound of muscle mass burns six calories daily, but one pound of skinny fat only burns two, two, three calories daily. Now our scientific biotype quiz up at fellowone.com currently does calculate skinny fat into the actual BMR.

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