Obesity rising in nations rich and poor, especially in children

(KB Keto) #1

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

http://cumberlink.com/live_well_in_the_cumberland_valley/obesity-rising-in-nations-rich-and-poor-especially-in-children/article_80de8112-62d4-5d81-88bd-e46c94300859.html

Globally, about 4 million deaths were attributed to being overweight or obese in 2014, from causes like heart disease and diabetes.

Some good news is that improvements in medications and other kinds of health-care seem to be helping people survive longer even if they have weight-related health problems. Researchers did not find an increase in weight-related rates of death and disability, Gregg observed.

But with obesity levels rising, there is a pressing need for better nutrition and other efforts to prevent unhealthy weight gain, said one of the authors, said Dr. Ashkan Afshin, the study’s lead author.

Unfortunately, “there is no single simple solution for the problem of overweight and obesity,” he said.

(Crow T. Robot) #2

“Other than lowering insulin, but that would mean admitting Gary Taubes was right, and we’re not going to do that.”

#3

“Lowering insulin” isn’t always a single simple solution though either. You could have high insulin due to diet, which we talk about commonly here, but you could also have high insulin due to other causes, like elevated cortisol levels due to chronic stress or use of particular medications, etc. That typically requires different solutions to deal with.

(Crow T. Robot) #4

Okay, but whatever the cause, lowering insulin is key.

#5

Sure, but there’s not a “single simple solution” to lowering insulin either.