I’m 39 years old, male, 198 cm tall, 120 kg weight. My BMI is 30.6 and it falls in the Obese Class I category; but I don’t feel “fat”? I also wouldn’t say I look obese; bulky? sure.
I’m 39 years old, male, 198 cm tall, 120 kg weight. My BMI is 30.6 and it falls in the Obese Class I category; but I don’t feel “fat”? I also wouldn’t say I look obese; bulky? sure.
Its flawed but a decent screener. Follow up with a blood test if you are concerned. BMI doesn’t distinguish between muscle/fat and some people can have a high BMI but be metabolically perfectly healthy-others not so much. Its a very wide spectrum that needs to be looked at on a case-by-case basis. Also fat tissue (adipose) is involved in much more than just energy storage, its quite active in inflammation, metabolism and disease processes. Source: I did my MSc on obesity and gut health. Bonus fun fact: theres no standard definition of “high fat diet”, many meta analyses are comparing wildly different diets to draw some pretty “interesting” conclusions!
A diet high in fat can be healthy. Imagine someone eating a couple avocados every day and saying they are being unhealthy. Eating fat does not make you fat. The low fat craze I believe started in the 90s and has continued. You know what they generally replace the fat with to make the food taste good? Sugar. Sugar is terrible for you. Far worse than fat.
I didn’t mean this as an attack on you personally I just want to get this low-fat shit out of people’s brains.
Again, its a spectrum. It depends on calorie density and types of fat, how you react to it. There are absolutely certain types that are straight up bad, some can be good.