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Originally Posted by Zei

Everything listed here except tobacco is all caused by insulin resistance. Obesity isn't the cause, just one of the many effects. It just happens to be the only one easily visible so gets confused as a cause instead of effect.

I agree. And if Dr. Ancel Keys had been a better researcher, he might have discovered that, instead. He apparently did not know the real reason the Mediterraneans he studied were so healthy was because they fasted for religious reasons fairly frequently.