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“Although 10 percent of fat cells are replaced every year, the total number stays relatively constant as adults age.”
“Within a few decades, inexpensive bathroom scales were invented, and suddenly average people could learn their weight.”
“Despite their widespread use for decades, BMI categories have serious flaws.”
“What’s more, fat cells are everywhere, and that inflammation can spread to nearly every nook and cranny of the body.”
“When your fat cells are adequately stocked with fat, leptin levels are high, and your brain suppresses appetite.”
“Whether we are normal weight or obese, shrinking fat cells induce powerful sensations of hunger and lethargy, countering efforts to lose weight.”
“Very muscular people are sometimes miscategorized as overweight.”
“What’s more, even if someone’s BMI accurately reflects their body fat percentage, BMI is not a complete measure of health.”
“If we want to better understand obesity, we have to learn more about fat.”
“Thus two people with the same ratio of weight to height squared (kg/m2) have effectively the same weight for a given height.”
“Then in 1972, the influential American physiologist Ancel Keys wondered how well Quetelet’s index predicts a person’s body fat percentage.”
“When abdominal fats cells over-swell, they ignite more chronic inflammation than do subcutaneous fat cells.”
“Just because a measure is accurate (or, for that matter, precise) doesn’t mean you understand its meaning.”
“They also appreciate that you need enough fat to be healthy, have children, and not be grumpy.”
“As a reminder, animals—humans included—store most of their energy as fat.”
“Inflammation in the brain damages neurons, increasing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.”
“The most important of these hormones is leptin, which signals to the brain information about the body’s energy supply.”
“That means BMI typically overestimates the percentage of body fat in Blacks and underestimates it in Asians.”
“In addition, percentages of fat and other tissues differ among individuals depending on age, sex, and race or ethnic background.”
“If you ask (as I have) hunter-gatherers what they prefer to eat, more often than not the answer is meat, especially fatty meat.”
“When your fat cells shrink as you burn fat, leptin levels drop, stimulating hunger.”
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