When we think about metabolic health, we often focus on body weight, blood glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure and body fat. But there is another important piece of the metabolic picture that we sometimes overlook - our muscles. Skeletal muscle is not simply the tissue that enables us to walk, lift, climb stairs and carry shopping. It is also a major metabolic organ. Muscle stores glucose as glycogen, uses large amounts of glucose and fatty acids for energy, responds to ins

Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been used as the standard tool for identifying individuals as underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. But evidence suggests that BMI may not accurately reflect true metabolic health, particularly in individuals with a normal BMI but with excessive body fat – known as Normal Weight Obesity (NWO) . Here we outline how NWO presents a significant risk for cardiometabolic diseases and is closely related to lean non-alcoholic fatty liver di