Overweight individuals might have even greater health benefit from lifestyle changes such as increased physical activity than
do normal weight individuals.
The research team will investigate the paradox that some obese individuals are protected from metabolic complications longer than expected based on their adiposity level, while
some normal weight individuals suffer from such complications.
The difference in gene expressions were not significant in
the normal weight individuals.
In trained or overweight individuals, calf muscle cross-sectional area is greater than untrained or
normal weight individuals.
Kent Holtorf, MD: Most underweight or
normal weight individuals will have leptin levels below 10, although most major labs will use a reference range of 1 to 9.5 for men and 4 to 25 for women.