There's No Such Thing As "Healthy Weight" - Only Healthy People!

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We start off this episode by crunching off the latest numbers regarding the health of Americans. 44% of Americans are obese. 70% of Americans are overweight and 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. 1 in 4 young people or 25% of young people is metabolically unhealthy. These are grim statistics. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We go through five markers that show if you are metabolically healthy or not. These are from the World Health Organization. It doesn’t matter if you are small or have a great swimsuit body. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The five markers of metabolic health are blood pressure, blood sugar measured through the A1C test, fasting blood glucose, waist circumference, and triglycerides. Listen in to learn about the parameters of each of these five markers and find out if you are metabolically healthy or not. If you are above the limits for three of these markers, then you are metabolically unhealthy even if you are small in size. </span></p> <p><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The latest statistics on the health of Americans (04:17)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why weight on the scale is not the only marker of health (06:19)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blood pressure readings taken over time are one of the markers of metabolic health (07:36)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blood sugar levels measured over three months through the A1C test  need to be below 5.7 (10:22)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fasting blood glucose should be less than 100 (12:17)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Waist circumference for a man measured at the belly button should be less than 40 inches and less than 34 inches for a woman (13:09)</span></li> <li style="font-