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The following post was originally published on Obesitypanacea.com on October 7, 2009.
When many people set out to exercise, they do so with the primary goal of losing fat mass. There is much advice floating around about how to optimize or maximize fat loss during exercise; one of the most commonly touted is that of the fat burning zone.
In his post last Friday, Peter did a very nice job of introducing the the counter-intuitive idea that having too little fat, rather than too much, causes many of the metabolic problems of obesity.&nbsp
There are two kinds of fatty acids: saturated and unsaturated. Saturated fatty acids have no carbon-carbon double bonds (-CH=CH-), they have only (-CH2-CH2-) single bonds.

Does anyone have the standards that were used in the late 1960s in the days of the draft? It would be interesting to know how they compare, all be it that apparently obesity is much more common than back then. I did hear that in WWII the problem was that most folks were undernourished (Likely due to economic factors). I do suspect that on the education side the requirements are a lot tighter now than then, because the tasks are so much more complex.