Obesity in sentence

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And in one generation, for example, Asia's gone from having one of the lowest rates of heart disease and obesity and diabetes to one of the highest.

Now there is an epidemic of obesity: two-thirds of adults and 15 percent of kids.

Clearly the obesity trend is exponentially going in the wrong direction, including with huge costs.

Decades after the "Hunger Winter," researchers documented that people whose mothers were pregnant during the siege have more obesity, more diabetes and more heart disease in later life than individuals who were gestated under normal conditions.

And their higher rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the result.

The reality is that we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, and it's not simply limited to our country.

So a real skyrocketing of chronic childhood disease that includes other things like obesity and juvenile diabetes, premature puberty.

And this is not just philosophical, it's already known, that chemicals like diethylstilbestrol and estrogen, PCBs, DDT cross the placenta and effectively determine the likelihood of developing breast cancer and obesity and diabetes already when the baby's in the womb.

Unfortunately, over the past quarter century, epidemic obesity has made our two-ton steel cars gain weight twice as fast as we have.

There's beginning to be some evidence that obesity and diet have something to do with gene modifications, which may or may not have an impact on how the brain of an infant works.

But in my world, it's called reduced obesity and diabetes.

And excessive use of antibiotics, in particular in children, has been shown to be associated with, again, risk factors for obesity, for autoimmune diseases, for a variety of problems that are probably due to disruption of the microbial community.

That's based on diet intake surveys, it's based on levels of obesity, it's based on a range of factors that gives you an approximate guess as to how much food is actually going into people's mouths.

For instance, the obesity rate in my neighborhood is five times higher than, say, Beverly Hills, which is probably eight, 10 miles away.

And underlying these questions, I became almost maniacally obsessed in trying to understand the real relationship between obesity and insulin resistance.

Now, most researchers believe obesity is the cause of insulin resistance.

You treat the obesity.

What if obesity isn't the cause of insulin resistance at all?

I know it sounds crazy because we're obviously in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but hear me out.

What if obesity is a coping mechanism for a far more sinister problem going on underneath the cell?

I'm not suggesting that obesity is benign, but what I am suggesting is it may be the lesser of two metabolic evils.

So what I'm suggesting is maybe we have the cause and effect wrong on obesity and insulin resistance.

Maybe we should be asking ourselves, is it possible that insulin resistance causes weight gain and the diseases associated with obesity, at least in most people?

So if you can be obese and not have insulin resistance, and you can be lean and have it, this suggests that obesity may just be a proxy for what's going on.

So what if we're fighting the wrong war, fighting obesity rather than insulin resistance?

What if some of our fundamental ideas about obesity are just wrong?

So if you put these physiological processes to work, I'd hypothesize that it might be our increased intake of refined grains, sugars and starches that's driving this epidemic of obesity and diabetes, but through insulin resistance, you see, and not necessarily through just overeating and under-exercising.

But step one is accepting the possibility that our current beliefs about obesity, diabetes and insulin resistance could be wrong and therefore must be tested.

For the past year, I've been fortunate enough to work on this problem with the most amazing team of diabetes and obesity researchers in the country, and the best part is, just like Abraham Lincoln surrounded himself with a team of rivals, we've done the same thing.

If obesity is nothing more than a proxy for metabolic illness, what good does it do us to punish those with the proxy?

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