Normal Weight Obesity
Posted by leah on Jun 28, 2008
A Mayo Clinic study earlier this year found that normal weight individuals (defined as people who had a BMI in the normal range) who had a high percentage of body fat were more likely than those with a lower percentage of body fat to have metabolic disorders.
In plain english, the study found that having a normal weight doesn’t automatically make you healthy - you also need to have a normal or low percentage of body fat.
One way to decrease your percentage of body fat is to increase the percentage of muscle mass you have - and the easiest way to do that is by exercising regularly.