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Physician, Author of Fat Chance, Hacking of the American Mind, and Metabolical. Learn more at https://t.co/zPM9yG9V8U and https://t.co/853Spz3gXN.
Nov 30, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Last week, Julia Belluz (@juliaoftoronto) published an article not on what #obesity is, but what it isn't: a personal failing. In it, she argues that obesity is not one thing, it's many. That's right. It's not OBESITY. It's OBESITIES.

nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opi… This week, my colleague Ilene Fennoy and I published a paper delineating the history of all of these obesities. Nonetheless, people still argue whether obesity is a problem of energy storage (#insulin) or a problem of energy balance (#calories).

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