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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  You're splitting hairs. Being overweight causes diabetes you say? Well how does one get overweight? By their food choices.
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No, it's actually not always by food choices at all. If you study obesity studies, you'll see that's not medically correct. There are genetic disorders aplenty where people eat a normal amount or even LESS, but are constrained by a genetic anomaly that causes them to be overweight regardless. They've found this sometimes has to do with leptin. Obesity can also be secondary to medications, other diseases. It's just not medically correct to say that being overweight is solely caused by food - that's really unfair to those where is not caused
whatsoever by food. It causes a lot of prejudicial thinking, too, btw...but I'm not saying at all that you feel that way (not at all!
).