• @Fal@yiffit.net
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    61 year ago

    Healthy body fat ranges depend on race

    This isn’t really true. Unless what you’re suggesting is that there’s a biological component of race, which my understanding no scientist suggests. “Normal” ranges depend on race, but it’s not like 1 race is healthier at a different weight than another

    https://www.sapiens.org/biology/is-race-real/

    • OOFshoot
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      11 year ago

      While race is mostly a social construct, it’s easier to use race as shorthand for “populations with long-term historical ancestry in a loosely defined geographical area, accepting that population mixing has been occurring since the dawn of time and will continue to do so into the future” than it is to say that whole thing every time

      BUT, it’s my understanding that, for example, Pacific Islanders are generally healthy at a higher body fat percentage than other groups of humans.