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. 2017 Jan:40:e130.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001552.

Obesity is not just elevated adiposity, it is also a state of metabolic perturbation

Jonathan Ck Wells  1
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Obesity is not just elevated adiposity, it is also a state of metabolic perturbation

Jonathan Ck Wells. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Nettle et al. miss the crucial difference between adaptive models of storing energy and explanations for the pathological metabolic state of obesity. I suggest that the association of food insecurity with obesity in women from industrialized settings is most likely due to reverse causation: Poverty reduces agency to resist obesogenic foods, and this scenario is compounded by perturbations of insulin metabolism stemming from high adiposity and lipogenic diets.

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