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John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and stats of his remark...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, John Stone experiment, waist-to-weight ratio

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In my previous blog post, I argued that one’s optimal weight may be the one that minimizes one’s waist-to-weight ratio. I built this argum...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, fit2fat2fit experiment, waist-to-weight ratio

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There is a significant amount of empirical evidence suggesting that, for a given individual and under normal circumstances, the optimal we...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, waist-to-weight ratio

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Many readers of this blog have probably heard about the case of the man who ate approximately 25 eggs (20 to 30) per day for over 15 years (...

Labels: BMI, cholesterol, egg, longevity, obesity, omega-6, omega-6 to omega-3 ratio

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In my previous post I argued that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energy expenditure by a ce...

Labels: BMI, body fat, energy expenditure, fasting, intermittent fasting, NEAT, overfeeding, weight loss

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When you look at the literature on overfeeding, you see a number over and over again – 14 percent. That is approximately the increase in ene...

Labels: BMI, body fat, energy expenditure, fasting, intermittent fasting, NEAT, overfeeding, starvation, weight loss

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In a previous post ( ), I discussed the frequently reported lowest-mortality body mass index (BMI), which is about 26. The empirical results...

Labels: BMI, body fat, calorie restriction, longevity, mortality, multivariate analysis, muscle gain, muscle loss

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Do overweight folks live longer? It is not uncommon to see graphs like the one below, from the Med Journal Watch blog ( ), suggesting that, ...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, longevity, mortality, multivariate analysis, muscle gain, muscle loss

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The graph below (from Wikipedia) plots body fat percentage (BF) against body mass index (BMI) for men. The data is a bit old: 1994. The top-...

Labels: BMI, body fat, diabetes, evolution, obesity, research, skinny-fat

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Mazess & Mather (1974) is probably the most widely cited article summarizing evidence that bone mineral content in older North Alaskan E...

Labels: BMI, bone density, Inuit, osteoporosis, protein, research

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Loss of muscle mass is associated with aging. It is also associated with the metabolic syndrome, together with excessive body fat gain. It i...

Labels: BMI, body fat, diabetes, diseases of civilization, evolution, fat loss, muscle gain, muscle loss, obesity, Okinawa

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Ancel Keys is often heavily criticized for allegedly originating the fat phobia that we see today in the US and other countries, perhaps wit...

Labels: BMI, body fat, cancer, research, tumor necrosis factor-alpha