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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFI
This says, roughly, that there is a very wide variation in the amount of internal body fat for people of the same height, weight and waist measurement.
It talks mainly (for normal weight) of BMI 20-25.
It also says that diagnosing TOFI is very difficult and expensive because it needs an MRI scan.
What it conspicuously doesn't say is if this is still prevalent in those in the lower end of the BMI normal range; that would be 18.5 to 20.
I can suspect that I am MONW because a couple of years ago I had an IR test (privately) which showed that I was producing insulin in the lower part of the normal range but that I still had higher than normal BG level so I was moderately insulin resistant.
This does generate some questions. If you are "normal" BMI and reasonably fit but have IR does that almost certainly mean that you are TOFI/MONW?
If so, how low in weight do you have to go to get rid of that visceral fat? I assume that some visceral fat is a good thing.
There is a suggestion that VO2max measurement might be a cheaper way to diagnose TOFI but there seem to be a lot of assumptions to overcome before a reliable calculation can be made.
This says, roughly, that there is a very wide variation in the amount of internal body fat for people of the same height, weight and waist measurement.
It talks mainly (for normal weight) of BMI 20-25.
It also says that diagnosing TOFI is very difficult and expensive because it needs an MRI scan.
What it conspicuously doesn't say is if this is still prevalent in those in the lower end of the BMI normal range; that would be 18.5 to 20.
I can suspect that I am MONW because a couple of years ago I had an IR test (privately) which showed that I was producing insulin in the lower part of the normal range but that I still had higher than normal BG level so I was moderately insulin resistant.
This does generate some questions. If you are "normal" BMI and reasonably fit but have IR does that almost certainly mean that you are TOFI/MONW?
If so, how low in weight do you have to go to get rid of that visceral fat? I assume that some visceral fat is a good thing.
There is a suggestion that VO2max measurement might be a cheaper way to diagnose TOFI but there seem to be a lot of assumptions to overcome before a reliable calculation can be made.