Four Obesity Paradoxes Explained

[haidut]

I don't know if the author of that blog follows this forum or not, but we have been discussing these "paradoxes" for some time now. It seems that even mainstream medicine is wising up to the fact that blindly recommending weight loss can be downright dangerous and that obesity may be a defensive mechanism that has its benefits (and costs) for people under chronic stress. In fact, obesity may be a symptom of exactly such stressful lifestyle given its ties to cortisol and estrogen and their role in the Adaptation Syndrome.

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