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In other words, to be metabolically healthy means that your body is able to respond to food in a beneficial way that reduces your risk of conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Metabolic health is defined by optimal levels of 5 clinical markers: blood sugar levels, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference [1]. Both the standalone values and the variability of these markers play crucial roles in deciphering your metabolic health.
A few years ago, a group of researchers from the University of North Carolina published a research paper that said that only 12.2% of adults in the United States are metabolically healthy.
Having a moderate weight doesn’t automatically guarantee good metabolic health. “Less than one-third of normal weight adults were metabolically healthy,” the researchers wrote in the paper. They added that 92% of people with overweight and 99.5% of people with obesity were metabolically unhealthy.