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What If Obesity Was The Consequence Of Diabetes?
Surgeon Peter Attia demonstrates that the obesity crisis might be hiding a bigger problem.
As a young surgeon, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years later, Attia received an unpleasant medical surprise that led him to wonder: is our understanding of diabetes right?
Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war.
A war fraught with harsh judgement. Obesity might actually be the lesser of two evils – a coping mechanism to keep from more health crises that could lead to death. Attia wants to change all of that…
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Getting cause and effect right makes all the difference in the world. It saves lives.
