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The Body Type Science Theory Research began in 2003 out of necessity. At the time, there was only the Standard Body Type One (BT1) found in any scientifically approved human body anatomy book/resource (defined and recognized by mainstream science and medical doctors). There were no other body types scientifically/medically based on real science with actual scientific definitions backed by real-world scientific data, evidence, and facts.
And, thus, no way to scientifically explain the countless human body shapes worldwide.
What is the Scientific/Medical Definition of Skinny Fat?
Skinny fat is defined as having too much fat on your body even when within safe Standard BMI (18.5 to 24.99) — AKA normal weight obesity (NWO). According to the Standard BMI definition, once you are within safe Standard BMI you no longer have any excess white fat/yellow fat (regular fat) on your body. Being normal weight obese/skinny fat directly contradicts and violates the Standard BMI definition and is technically impossible.
So, how is it possible to be within Safe Standard BMI and still have too much fat on your body?
It is possible because the excess body fat the person is experiencing is not excess regular white/yellow fat, it is unique genetic skinny fat tissue including cellulite and thin fat.
The Science of Skinny Fat – Scientific Body Type Quiz Official
Regular white/yellow fat tissue can be both visceral and subcutaneous. Whereas skinny fat tissue is only subcutaneous. You could technically lose 100% of your white/yellow/regular fat and your skinny fat will remain. Skinny fat and regular fat are not the same thing.
This 23-year-old research participant (Body Type Three/BT3) has a safe Standard BMI of 24.6 (two left pictures) with obvious skinny fat/normal weight obesity — thin fat & cellulite. The right two pictures are after further safe weight loss and reaching a safe Standard BMI of 21.3 — yet the skinny fat/NWO (thin fat and cellulite) is still obvious.
Once within safe Standard BMI, according to mainstream science/medicine you are the Standard Body Type One (BT1) found in any scientifically approved human body anatomy book. But it is obvious that person is not a Standard BT1 with all muscle/mass developed. They have obvious skinny fat where genetically they should have default genetic muscle/mass.
What Causes Skinny Fat?
It is an undisputed fact that muscle tissue cannot turn into any kind of fat tissue — be it regular fat, brown fat, beige fat, or skinny fat — or vice versa. This is not how human tissue works. Skinny fat, thin fat and cellulite, is unique tissue. Regular fat is unique tissue. They are different kinds of tissue. Just as muscle tissue is unique tissue.
Poor diet, exercise, and/or lifestyle can cause muscle/mass tissue loss, but any lost muscle/mass does not magically turn into skinny fat tissue. This is not how human tissue works. Moreover, no amount of protein/nutrients/diet, exercise (cardio or resistance), or lifestyle (sleep, stress, etc.) will magically turn skinny fat into muscle/mass or get rid of, prevent, or avoid it, etc. This is not how human tissue works.
Muscle Mass Loss Equates to Skinny Fat, Right?
For instance, Christian Bale is genetically blessed with a genetic scientific Standard Body Type One (BT1). Around 2003-2004, for a movie role, he lost an insane amount of weight including obvious muscle mass. Yet, no signs of any type of skinny fat. Genetics. If it is true (it is not) that lost muscle tissue causes skinny fat, then it would apply equally and unequivocally to all human beings 100% of the time, and not just affect certain people.
Thanks to genetics, 80%+ of women in the world have some degree of cellulite skinny fat as well as less than 10% of men, but 0% of them have ever gotten rid of their cellulite; they can only reduce it. The same goes for thin fat. All races, both men and women, experience skinny fat. Skinny fat is caused by genetics and influenced by diet, exercise, and lifestyle.
If you are experiencing any type of skinny fat — particularly thin fat and/or cellulite — where genetically you should have default genetic muscle/mass, you have had it since birth thanks to your genetics. The younger you are, the harder it is to discern skinny fat, especially thin fat. Evolving genetic science is working on new ways to deal with skinny fat in the coming years.
How Skinny Fat Determines Genetic Scientific Body Type (Body Composition and Shape)
Scientifically identifying your unique default genetic body composition (and shape) helps you better understand your specific metabolism, diet, exercise, and lifestyle to achieve safe, sustainable, and successful regular fat weight loss and management as well as overall health in the short and long term.
If you are genetically experiencing skinny fat, how much skinny fat you have on your body where genetically you should have muscle/mass relative to each of the 26 vertebrae — cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx — determines if you are a genetic scientific Standard Body Type One (BT1), Body Type Two (BT2), Body Type Three (BT3), or Body Type Four (BT4). The proprietary Official Scientific Body Type Quiz accurately IDs/determines your specific genetic scientific body type.
Scientific Body Type Quiz Official – Scientific Facts:
The Latest Skinny Fat Science
- Any part of the human body can be genetically underdeveloped to whatever degree, including muscles/muscle mass – with heritability estimates ranging from 30–85% for muscle strength and 50–80% for lean muscle mass. The Standard BMI, a useful guideline, fails to account for excess muscle mass (genetic or added via resistance/exercise) or any type of skinny fat. Standard Body Type One’s (BT1) have all the same 600+ muscles developed but can have different levels of genetic muscle mass, which is further influenced by height and other genetic factors, and is why not all BT1’s look or function identically.
- All human beings have all the default genetic muscle tissue they will ever have at or around birth. Some people have more genetic muscle tissue, some less. The ratio of Type 1 and Type 2 fibers varies from person to person. All this affects how much and how easily each person can add muscle mass through exercise, no less.
- Muscle tissue cannot/does not turn into any kind of fat (regular fat, skinny fat, brown fat, beige fat), or vice versa. This is not how human tissue works! Poor diet, exercise, and lifestyle can cause muscle/mass loss, but any lost muscle tissue does not magically turn into skinny fat tissue (or any kind of fat).
- Technically, you could lose 100% of your regular white/yellow fat (unique tissue) and your skinny fat (unique tissue) will remain.
- Every vertebra (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, coccyx) houses a specific set of muscles. If any of those muscles (or related muscles) are genetically underdeveloped, to whatever degree, it directly and negatively affects body composition, shape, posture, and metabolism, no less.
- One (1) pound of muscle burns six (6) calories per day, but one (1) pound of skinny fat and/or regular fat only burns two (2) to three (3) calories daily.
- The more skinny fat and/or regular fat you have on your body, the slower/weaker your metabolism and the fewer calories you burn. The more muscle/mass you have, the stronger/faster your metabolism and the more calories you burn.
- Anywhere you have skinny fat (only subcutaneous) on your body where genetically you should have default genetic muscle/mass, the more prone you are to putting on regular fat (which can be both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat) and the harder it is to keep regular fat off (and being overweight or obese/obesity at bay).
- There are a few FDA-approved methods to reduce skinny fat, including surgery, but no amount of dieting, lifestyle, or exercise/time in the gym will fix/get rid of skinny fat or turn skinny fat into muscle/mass. Diet, exercise, and lifestyle can also help you lose regular white/yellow fat and add muscle mass to reduce and manage skinny fat.
- You cannot permanently change/recomp your genetic body composition, you can only temporarily change/recomposition it through diet, lifestyle, and exercise including weightlifting.
- Once you stop the resistance/exercise (like bulking and cutting weight training/lifting) that built any added muscle mass above and beyond your default genetic muscle/mass, inevitably you will gradually begin to lose that added muscle mass and eventually return to your default genetic muscle/mass levels.
- All other body types are unscientific, arbitrary, subjective nonsense including Kibbe, triangle, rectangle, apple, pear, hormones, etc. along with the somatotypes mesomorph, endomorph, and ectomorph body types which were fully debunked and discredited in the 1950s, 70 years ago! Although they can be roughly correlated to a genetic scientific body type.
View your Quiz Results privately in your private account. Each Quiz Result is a snapshot. You can take as many Quizzes as you want to track your snapshots and any body composition changes over time.
Take the Official Scientific Body Type Quiz for females and males to learn more.
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