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It's not a remotely good proxy
by mohamedkoubaa 2mo ago
It's not a remotely good proxy
- weird-eye-issue 2mo agoSeriously, you don't think there's a connection between visceral fat and abdominal fat even though there's plenty of evidence that there is along with just common sense? It's just a particular type of abdominal fat so obviously the more abdominal fat that you can see it means you also have more of the type that can't see as well... It's not that complicated
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoThe amount of body fat and ways the body stores fat are highly uncorrelated for people who are not severely obese, and severe obesity itself might be made worse over time by high levels of visceral fat.
- weird-eye-issue 2mo agoYes visceral fat is metabolically active so it can make you more fat But I'm not sure why you think you can have a lot of visceral fat without any obvious abdominal fat
- therealdrag0 2mo ago“In this meta-analysis, BMI and WC, but not WHR, were very strongly correlated with imaging-derived total and subcutaneous abdominal fat. By comparison, all three measures were moderately or strongly correlated with imaging-based visceral abdominal fat, with WC showing the greatest correlation.” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10503139/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10503139/ Seems decent to me.