In Defense of Fat & Muscle

Lean woman in fat pants

Fat gets a bad rap but it’s amazingly efficient for storing energy.  Having no fat is a serious and painful genetic disorder.   Muscles let us do things and live our lives; nobody talks down muscle but that’s a different thing from maintaining that muscle.

But we do things as nonsensical as eliminating all fat and losing all muscle and that’s what I want to talk about in celebrating Frank Armstrong Day.  It isn’t a national holiday (yet) but together we could make it happen!  Consider the success of  International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

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