Robert Lustig:The Silent Epidemic Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) 50% of Americans have it
Speaker A distinguishes risk factors from causes and emphasizes that NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) is widespread in the U.S. and constitutes a public-health crisis because both obese and normal-weight people can have metabolically harmful fat. The chunk gives a concrete example: two equally weighted adults with identical trunk-fat measures (12.8) but different fat distributions — one with increased subcutaneous (cosmetic, metabolically inert) fat and the other with intra-abdominal (visceral) fat that is metabolically harmful. The term TOFI (Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside) is introduced as a real medical term, credited to Dr. Jimmy Bell (University College London) and said to have ~1500 MEDLINE citations.
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Dr. Jimmy Bell, University College London.
About 1500 MEDLINE citations.
12.8 (trunk fat).
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