VGKing said:
There is a certain percentage of body fat that is considered normal. On the low end you are anorexic, on the high end you are obese. |
Yeah, but the thing is what can be called normal varies from person to person depending on their genetics and even environmental factors. Pop medicine more often than not simplify things. That's perhaps what stuck with me the most from the eighteen months I attended medical school.
There are very skinny people who will fairly easily be diagnosed with health issues related to fat consumption and the opposite also holds true. In the end of the day the consideration of its effects on the metabolism and the proper functioning of the body are that's all that matters, considering fat is merely a form ofermal insulation and protection against mechanical shocks instead of an instrinsically malignant substance sticking to your body.
