lean body mass
Non-fat body tissue
Lean body mass is the weight of everything in the body except fat—muscle, bone, organs, water, and connective tissue.
It's a key metric in fitness and medicine for assessing physical composition: Her lean body mass increased even though her weight stayed the same.
Distinguished from fat-free mass, which excludes essential fats.
- muscleContractile body tissue
- fat-freeWithout dietary lipids
- dry weightWeight minus moisture
- skeletal muscleVoluntary movement tissue
- proteinFolded amino chain
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Lipid tissue stores
subcutaneous fat · visceral fat · body fat percentage · adiposity · fatty tissue
lean body massflab
Excess soft tissue
obesity · corpulence · flabbiness · overweight · pudginess
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