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| New Obesity/Overweight Model: Disability and Mortality |
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| Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D. |
| Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:22 |
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A new weight gain-obesity model links increase in free fatty acids(the metabolic abnormality), mechanical stress, and sex hormone imbalance to all of the complications of weight gain and obesity. With over 1 billion adults overweight, and 300 million obese in the world today, the epidemic has become global.
An epidemic surge in the incidence of obesity has occurred world wide fueled by lifestyle habits that encourage over consumption of energy-rich foods while also discouraging regular physical activity. These environmental influences create a chronic energy imbalance that leads t
o persistent weight gain in the form of body fat and a multiple metabolic abnormalities starting with increase in free fatty acids. Chronic oversupply of fat leads to numerous changes in organs all over the body not only from a alterations in blood lipids, but also due to the mechanical disturbances caused by the weight gain itself. Coupled with the abnormalities in sex hormones all of the manifestations of obesity related disability and mortality become interrelated. |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 December 2009 11:44 |




o persistent weight gain in the form of body fat and a multiple metabolic abnormalities starting with increase in free fatty acids. Chronic oversupply of fat leads to numerous changes in organs all over the body not only from a alterations in blood lipids, but also due to the mechanical disturbances caused by the weight gain itself. Coupled with the abnormalities in sex hormones all of the manifestations of obesity related disability and mortality become interrelated. 



