I saw this article linked on another fat site, and thought people here may be interested too:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/health/skinny-fat.html
In summary, some research is suggesting that much of the health issues associated with obesity actually occur when we exceed our ability to store fat. One leg of evidence is people with a rare disorder which gives them very little body fat, who end up with all the health issues associated with severe obesity. Another leg is studies in mice (which are obviously not humans), where they bread mice that have no effective limit on how fat they can get--the mice ended up massively fat but with none of the usual health complications.
None of which provides immediate clues on how to help people with 'metabolic syndrome,' although it may explain those people who are very fat but don't have the usual fat related health issues -- their bodies may have the ability to simply store more fat.
Not addressed in the article, but I'd think a reasonable extrapolation may be that eating at a rate that your body can't keep up with, even if it is still able to store more at overall, could also create issues?
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/health/skinny-fat.html
In summary, some research is suggesting that much of the health issues associated with obesity actually occur when we exceed our ability to store fat. One leg of evidence is people with a rare disorder which gives them very little body fat, who end up with all the health issues associated with severe obesity. Another leg is studies in mice (which are obviously not humans), where they bread mice that have no effective limit on how fat they can get--the mice ended up massively fat but with none of the usual health complications.
None of which provides immediate clues on how to help people with 'metabolic syndrome,' although it may explain those people who are very fat but don't have the usual fat related health issues -- their bodies may have the ability to simply store more fat.
Not addressed in the article, but I'd think a reasonable extrapolation may be that eating at a rate that your body can't keep up with, even if it is still able to store more at overall, could also create issues?
