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Research questions the relationship between weight and health issues

Author
Ragen Chastain
Published
Sat 07 Jun 2025
Episode Link
https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/research-questions-the-relationship

In the past we’ve talked about how the health issues that get blamed on being higher-weight may actually be due to weight stigma and/or weight cycling and/or healthcare inequalities. Recently reader Conner let me know what this 2021 study whose bottom line finding was “adverse consequences currently attributed to ob*sity could be attributed to hyperinsulinemia (or another proximate factor.”



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