Sometimes, health tracking accuracy is overrated
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About three years ago, a doctor told me I had to lose abdominal fat. She didn’t care about my lower belly fat. That, she said while pinching me, was subcutaneous fat. What she wanted was for me to target about five pounds of fat loss above my belly button because that’s where the visceral fat lived. Not weight loss; my BMI and weight, she said, were fine. I needed fat loss because I had borderline high cholesterol and one mildly elevated liver enzyme. Given my diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome (now known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), she was convinced that Type 2 diabetes lurked just around the corner for me unless...
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