Hydration — Critical for Life Water is vital for life. Without water, humans can survive only for days. Our bodies are even mostly water – 50-60% in women and 60-65% in men. Water content of our bodies depends on composition…
Fasting for fat loss While many regard fasting as a difficult challenge, it has been a normal part of the human experience for millennia and is a time-honored tradition among virtually all major religions of the world. Part of the…
How Much Body Fat is Acceptable? If excess body fat is indeed a threat to our health, we should have an idea what amount of body fat is healthy or unhealthy. That sounds easy enough, but it’s not so clear.…
Visualizing Visceral Fat Visceral fat can easily be visualized on routine imaging studies, particularly on CT (computed tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), both of which can easily differentiate visceral fat from subcutaneous fat. Given the enormous clinical implications of…
Visceral Fat – Know the Enemy Not all fat is created equal. Different types and different locations of fat have remarkably different effects on our health, yet there is very little awareness of this fact. As body fat is the…
Determining Your Personal Fat Threshold Given the relevance of the Personal Fat Threshold to one’s metabolic health, it certainly would be nice if there was a way of knowing what your own threshold is. Unfortunately, there is no way to…
The Personal Fat Threshold Why do some people who appear normal-weight have diabetes? And why do some people with severe obesity not have diabetes? These observations make the adage “You can’t judge a book by its cover” ring true. While…
Fat Loss 106: Measuring Body Composition In a world obsessed with weight, it’s important to realize that the scale doesn’t tell the whole story. Your health status is far more complex than the amount of gravitational pull your body has…
Overfat, not Obesity, is the Real Concern Excess body fat is associated with a wide range of cardiometabolic disorders, as well as most non-infectious chronic diseases. The traditional measure of body composition, Body Mass Index (obesity defined as BMI >…
The Pandemic of Excess Fat Rates of Obesity in the United States The rate of obesity in the United States is increasing at an alarming rate and has profound implications for public health. To get a sense of how fast,…
