FACT or FICTION: Being Skinny-Fat is Better Than Just Being Fat

The metric that our healthcare system uses to define our health has been leading us down the wrong path. Body Mass Index, or BMI, was never meant to be used on an individual level. And yet, that’s how the medical community categorizes. BMI is deceiving because not all body tissue is created equal. In other words, people who have lots of fat on their body, regardless of their actual weight, are still less metabolically healthy than those who don’t. In this episode we dive into why BMI is useless as a health metric and why being skinny-fat is more dangerous than just being fat: How you BMI is actually calculated… What the categories of BMI mean… How we came to use BMI as a health metric at all, even though it wasn’t intended for that us… How to use body fat percent to gauge your true metabolic health How to use waist-to-hip ratio as a better measure than BMI… Much more! Be sure to connect with Thriveology and Good Wolf Radio: Thriveology: http://bit.ly/3TILsVR YouTube: https://bit.ly/3LwM1zT Instagram: https://bit.ly/3K6XGVl Facebook: https://bit.ly/3LKDpGh