Posts in Health category.
A 75 kg rugby player steps on the scale next to a 75 kg sedentary office worker. Same weight, completely different bodies. One is 9 % fat and mostly muscle, the other 28 % fat and losing health fast. The scale can’t tell the difference - body-fat percentage can.
Two friends start eating 1800 kcal a day. Six months later one drops 12 kg, the other gains 3 kg. Same food, same label numbers. The difference? Their bodies burn calories at completely different speeds - often by 400-600 kcal a day. The only way to know yours is to calculate it properly.
Kidney function deteriorates insidiously for many years until symptoms become present. One blood test marker has achieved the gold standard for identifying this process in its early stages: estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).
According to WHO data, global obesity impacts more than 1.02 billion adults and calls for trustworthy measures like BMI to better understand its associated risks (like cardiovascular and metabolic related conditions).