Optimal metabolic health eludes most Americans – just 12.5% measure up

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Are you metabolically healthy? Are you sure? Many of us think of ourselves as healthy, even if we know we weigh more than we should. If we take away the scale and focus on other, more reliable markers of metabolic health, how do we measure up? It turns out that although some overweight people are indeed metabolically healthy, many more normal weight people are metabolically compromised. So the collective picture does not look good. How bad is it? A new study looked at five “scale-free” measures of metabolic health and demonstrated that just 12.5% of American adults qualify as healthy across all five metrics. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders: Prevalence of optimal metabolic health in American adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–2016 What measures were the study authors evaluating? waist circumference blood sugar (fasting glucose and HbA1c) blood pressure triglycerides HDL cholesterol If this list looks familiar, that is because it is a...
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