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2% essential body fat. There is fat in the body, like bone marrow, that you cannot live without. When you start using it for energy, you die. The 300 obese man might have a 60% body fat, 58% of that could be used for energy safely, 2% is necessary for his body to work, thus essential. I know what essential bodyfat is. I just don't understand what your point has to do with the debate you were having? Unless I am wrong, you were both debating whether it is possible to reach 2% bodyfat (the scientifically defined minimum amount of fat a human needs to survive) without any health issues. So if a 300 lb man lost enough bodyfat to reach 2% bodyfat, would he survive without any serious injury to his health. The same question would apply to a person of any weight for that matter...would hitting 2% bodyfat hurt that person, perhaps even kill them. You said it was possible to do safely, which goes against anything I have ever read. So I have to ask: do you have research papers to support that claim? A link to anything for that matter that is outside your personal opinion? Or are you now agreeing with the original debate that hitting 2% can cause issues? Because what you just said seems to fall in line with: Yep, that caliper reading was way off. A reading of 1.9% is plain ridiculous and as already pointed out, reserved for dead people. Errr... With 1.9% body fat you'd be practically dead. Which I admit reads a bit dramatic, but seems to get the point across that I have read elsewhere, that such low level of body fat can cause serious injury and even death, since it is, you know, essential.

2% essential body fat. There is fat in the body, like bone marrow, that you cannot live without. When you start using it for energy, you die. The 300 obese man might have a 60% body fat, 58% of that could be used for energy safely, 2% is necessary for his body to work, thus essential. I know what essential bodyfat is. I just don't understand what your point has to do with the debate you were having? Unless I am wrong, you were both debating whether it is possible to reach 2% bodyfat (the scientifically defined minimum amount of fat a human needs to survive) without any health issues. So if a 300 lb man lost enough bodyfat to reach 2% bodyfat, would he survive without any serious injury to his health. The same question would apply to a person of any weight for that matter...would hitting 2% bodyfat hurt that person, perhaps even kill them. You said it was possible to do safely, which goes against anything I have ever read. So I have to ask: do you have research papers to support that claim? A link to anything for that matter that is outside your personal opinion? Or are you now agreeing with the original debate that hitting 2% can cause issues? Because what you just said seems to fall in line with: Yep, that caliper reading was way off. A reading of 1.9% is plain ridiculous and as already pointed out, reserved for dead people. Errr... With 1.9% body fat you'd be practically dead. Which I admit reads a bit dramatic, but seems to get the point across that I have read elsewhere, that such low level of body fat can cause serious injury and even death, since it is, you know, essential.