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This study is about the population in the United States, but due to the increasing Americanization of the western world as a whole, Eurocels and Aussiecels would do to take heed as well.
LESS THAN 5% OF THE ENTIRE MALE POPULATION OF THE JEWNITED STATES IS BELOW 17% BODY FAT 17% is fat as fuck, especially if you don't lift weights or do heavy manual labor. It shows up on your face, the single most important thing for being conventionally attractive. Imagine being 20% body fat or more and thinking you're not a volcel, JFL.
Are Normal-Weight Americans Over-Fat?
Data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) 1999–2004 have recently shown the percent body fat of American adults. Average American men and women have ~28 and 40% body fat. When categorized by BMI and age, the data also ...
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Data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) 1999–2004 have recently shown the percent body fat of American adults. Average American men and women have ~28 and 40% body fat. When categorized by BMI and age, the data also show high percent body fat values, particularly in lower BMI categories. These data should make one reflect on the health status of Americans in all BMI categories and the use of these data for public health recommendations.
Although the report by Li et al. (1) provides useful information on the body fat content of Americans for specific BMI categories, these recent NHANES data seem to show high percent body fat levels, which is most striking among men and women who have a normal and overweight BMI. In fact, among women and men with BMI < 25 kg/m2, Li et al. (1) report a crude percent body fat of 34.0 and 22.7%, respectively. In contrast, in a small study of whites in Switzerland, percent body fat in women and men with normal BMI were 25.3 and 17.7%, respectively
It is disconcerting that the 5th percentile for percent body fat, which should represent the leanest of the population, corresponds to 28 and 17% body fat for women and men, respectively, and that the 50th percentile is as high as 41 and 28%. The message that may be interpreted from these cut-points, if they are to be used “in clinical settings and public health services” (1), is that the percentage body fat values that correspond to normal BMIs are acceptable and/or healthy.
LESS THAN 5% OF THE ENTIRE MALE POPULATION OF THE JEWNITED STATES IS BELOW 17% BODY FAT 17% is fat as fuck, especially if you don't lift weights or do heavy manual labor. It shows up on your face, the single most important thing for being conventionally attractive. Imagine being 20% body fat or more and thinking you're not a volcel, JFL.