Understanding Your Personal Fat Threshold

This week we are taking a closer look at the new 'personal fat threshold' theory which helps to explain why people of all shapes and sizes may be at risk of metabolic disorders.

If you’re interested in living a long and healthy life after cancer you will be in no doubt about the need to stay slim, and acutely aware of the importance of your BMI for long term health. Indeed, you probably believe it’s impossible to be healthy when you’re overweight. But what if your weight is irrelevant? What if we’re measuring the wrong things?

The weight:health ratio is something I have found very puzzling over the years. I’ve been committed to ‘Optimum Nutrition’ since 1999, and a radical low carber since 2011, but my BMI teeters stubbornly on the brink of disaster. I have often asked myself how I have managed to be a twenty-seven year survivor of advanced triple negative breast cancer with such a heavy black mark on my health record. It has been the cause of much stress and anxiety, as well as much starving and striving. While my weight is slightly less than when I was diagnosed, 27 years ago, my health feels a million times better. That, too, is a puzzle. Is it possible that a small amount of weight loss can make such a big difference? Professor Roy Taylor thinks it can.

This article is a sneak preview of one that will be published in Health Triangle magazine next month. You read it here first!