CJA Lifestyle - Nutrition Plan July 2021

away from the correlations between BMI and health. However there are other important factors.

The reason that increased body fat is such a problem is that it is an indicator of the visceral fat in your body. This means the fat that is in and around your internal organs.

It is this fat that causes problems for your body’s function. When your body stores fat in and around your organs, it impacts their ability to do their job. The best external guide to this is the distribution of your body fat. Fat around your legs, arms and bottom are not really implicated when it comes to visceral fat. The fat around your middle – your tummy – is a reasonable indicator. This brings me back to obese healthy sportspeople. Generally, if your waist measurement is within normal limits, you will not have a lot of visceral fat. If I found a premiership rugby player with a raised BMI, it is likely that his or her waist measurement would be in the healthy range, hence BMI is not applicable to everyone.

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