Sunday, October 24, 2010
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When thin people see someone who is overweight, many of them assume it's because all overweight people are slothful gluttons.
Anyone intelligent person knows this is not true. Some people are born lucky, with a metabolism that lets them eat almost anything without putting on we...
I reminded of John Ioannidis writing about how wrong most genetic research like this really is. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
This may or may not be true but the wide ranging problem of obesity seems to say that there is a lot more going on then anything to do with genetics.
I don't see obesity as ever having anything to do with either gluttony or sloth. I'm thin diabetic and I practice both. I see it as the body's way of handling higher than normal blood sugars caused by bad foods and inflammation.
I found a paper dealing with Ketosis Prone Type 2 diabetics and it showed that the heavier diabetics had much lower A1c's than thin ones and were far likelier to remain stable. http://ketosisprone.blogspot.com/2010/06/increased-weight-and-insulin-resistance.html
Obesity, it seems, in this case was protective.
Michael, I agree with you that there's a lot more going on than just genetics. But genetics is still a big factor. It's rare that you'd find identical twins separated at birth in which one was skinny and the other was fat.
You may not see gluttony and sloth as having anything to do with obesity, but many people do, and unfortunately some of those people are in the health care field.