Robert Lustig: Obesity Isn’t the Cause—Normal-Weight People Get Diabetes and Heart Disease Too. Why?
A speaker (SPEAKER A) asserts that a large portion of the normal-weight U.S. population (about 90 million people per the math provided) also suffers metabolic and chronic diseases typically attributed to obesity — including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, fatty liver disease, and PCOS. The speaker emphasizes that while obesity is a risk factor (with higher percentages affected), it cannot be the sole cause because normal-weight people develop the same diseases, sometimes at lower BMIs.
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