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Why body type standards are misleading in assessing health

The Podcast by KevinMD

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Is There Anything You Can Do to Help Account for Skinny Fat?

Skinny fat in all of its forms, especially normal weight obesity carries the same general risks as having obesity. So if you have skinny fat on your body and you're someone like me who's worked very hard their entire life to be within safe BMI yet I still have skinny fat,. I am still at risk for all those obesity factors even though I am well within my safe BMI weight range. Skinny fat is a serious disease that is global and it's getting worse. We need to get these biotype standards to a place where they are more accurate so that we can better diagnose and deal with skinny fat"

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