True...BMI is useless for individuals but helpful for studying populations.
If you took a Black, Asian, white and Latina woman of the same height/weight...the Black women would most likely be healthier since sistas store less fat/visceral fat in the midsection and more on the thighs and butt.
White women are a mixed bag...but most either have big thighs/calves or huge titties.
Asian (East Asian) women got it the worst. Their weight goes straight to their .
Minor note to make here. I agree with everything else except this word. You may not be using it correctly.
Visceral fat is entirely different concept than midsection fat. In anatomy, viscera are organs in the abdominopelvic cavity. As such, medically speaking, visceral fat is fat that surrounds individual organs, ( effectively hugging them )and is actually a leading cause of insulin resistance due to how the metabolism of those lipids affects the organs they are attached to.
Conversely, the build up of fat in midsection's adipose tissue is a separate thing entirely. In your original post, I think you meant to refer to
subcutaneous fat deposits which would be the fat beaneath skin and often lines the midsection. As counterintuitive as this sounds, midsection fat is actually linked to healthier people, with a lower risk of insulin resistance and less diabetes but only if the fat is expressed on your midsection instead of on your visceral organs.
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What causes the insulin resistance underlying obesity?
"In this context, the mechanisms that control the expandability of subcutaneous adipose tissue, including its high capacity for adipocyte differentiation and lipid storage may be key factors in determining diabetes risk in obesity"
"Each standard deviation (SD) increase in subcutaneous adipose tissue mass decreases the odds of insulin resistance by 48%, whereas a SD increase in visceral adipose tissue mass increases the odds of insulin resistance by 80% [5▪]. These findings can explain the existence of ‘benign’ and ‘malign’ obesity". - quotes from National Institute of Health position paper.
As a final note, lemme add that those Asians actually are healthier than us as black people based on their fat distribution. Our proportions are actually counterintuitive because our wider hips and larger frames lead to more visceral fat in addition to our more pronounced subcutaneous (midsection) fat. So Ming Lee and her fellow PAAGs do indeed look worse with fat, but they are also healthier with it than black women specifically because the fat goes straight to their mid-section. Thus, Thick women are actually not healthy. Skinny-ish black people are often not healthy either.
"These findings can explain the existence of ‘benign’ and ‘malign’ obesity wherein insulin resistance is not observed in all individuals with high BMIs. They may also explain the very highincidence of insulin resistance and diabetes in ethnic populations that display relatively low BMIs associated with high waist circumferences or waist-to-hip ratios, reflecting elevated visceral obesity. " -a from quote from the NIH position paper.
I apologize in advance if I went a little overboard with the post. I just find this stuff fascinating and I thought I could add value with the point on the word "visceral". i hope the message is received well.
obese is the definition of unhealthy
Don't our genetics (west African) promote muscle growth and power? How does that help your argument? BMI mistakes muscle for fat which is what those studies use.
