Robert Lustig explains that about 60% of normal-weight people have the same metabolic diseases linked to obesity, like type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Being thin doesn't mean you're metabolically healthy, and being obese doesn't guarantee you'll get sick.
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They are metabolically healthy. We have a name for them, mho, Metabolically Healthy Obese. They will live a completely normal life, diet a completely normal age, not cost the taxpayer a dime. They're just fat. They have increased subcutaneous fat, which turns out to be protective against chronic.
Metabolic disease.
Nothing wrong with them, you know, other than fitting into a swimsuit. Conversely, and.
This is the important part.
60% of the normal.
Weight population have.
The exact same.
Diseases as did the obese.
Normal weight people.
Get type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease.
Cancer, dementia, fatty.
Liver disease, polycystic.
Ovarian disease, too. Now they get it at a lower BMI. And it's true that it's 60% versus 80%. So, in fact.
Obesity is a risk.
Factor for chronic metabolic disease. And I don't argue that that is absolutely true.