DR.FOX’S 5-POINT FAT BLOCKER PROGRAM: THIN SHOULDN’T BE CONFUSED WITH HEALTHY
Thin shouldn’t be confused with healthy. I treat many very thin models—women who weigh between 95 and 110 pounds. They’re thin, but at the same time some of them are significantly “overfat!” Of course you don’t ever know it by looking at them. Still, body weight is accounted for by a combination of lean body tissue (bones and muscle) and fat tissue. It’s quite possible for a 100-pound woman to look slim but carry only 70 of those pounds as lean body tissue and 30 of them as fat. But fat should account for no more than 20 to 25 percent of a healthy woman’s body weight, and about 15 percent of the average man’s weight. So the 100-pound woman in our example is overfat and therefore unhealthy. It’s much more prudent to focus on improving your health rather than on trying to reach a designated dress size or number on the scale. Remember: Thinness and good health are two different things.
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