Individuals of East Asian descent with a BMI of 26 may have metabolic syndrome, high visceral fat, and low muscle mass.

“because you know again i think most people are kind of familiar with this idea of skinny fat right so you have someone of east asian descent whose bmi is 26 which by all intents sounds just wonderful but they have metabolic syndrome right there's nothing about this person that's healthy right every metric across the board tons of visceral fat um very little muscle mass etc and that's a different phenotype right that's a slightly different phenotype than perhaps the model was built on”