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Fat – Bad!
Muscle - Good!

The Nutrition Grouch explores yet another example of overly simplistic, binary, good/bad thinking in the health & wellness industry.  And grumbles that no one takes the time to talk about

• How much fat is too much?
• How much muscle do you really need?
• That people with obesity likely already have enough muscle.  They don't need to build more.
• Why burning fat, a catabolic process, is the antithesis of building muscle, an anabolic process.
• Why you might want to focus on one goal or another.
• Why it is important to consider why you are making a change.  Is it to improve your metabolic health, functionality, or visual vanity (physique)?
• Why no one considers the ROI -- effort versus reward when it comes to physique.

Other topics discussed include talking about “skinny fat”, the quantification debacle, why BMI is fine for estimating body composition, purchasing my first Olympic weight set, my own struggles with vanity, my apparent obsession with Arnold Schwarzenegger, overly simplistic, generic advice, and my ongoing beef with high protein diets at the expense of carbohydrate.