{"id":1159,"date":"2009-11-23T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2009-11-23T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:24:07","slug":"news-unhyped-obesity-associations-inequality-hunger-and-dieting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/index.php\/news-unhyped-obesity-associations-inequality-hunger-and-dieting\/","title":{"rendered":"News – Unhyped obesity associations: inequality, hunger, and dieting."},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to black-box epidemiology, wherein associations and correlations are drawn between two or more conditions, but where the causal mechanisms behind those associations are left shrouded in convenient mystery, nothing seems to gratify researchers more than showing how fatness (i.e. “obesity”) is associated<\/a> with a host of scary-sounding chronic diseases, while implying that fatness itself is the result of simple gluttony and sloth.<\/p>\n

Because, you know, fat people enjoy making themselves sick just to annoy everyone, and to drive up healthcare costs. (It’s all part of the secret fatty agenda. If you haven’t been coming to the clandestine meetings, please email me.)<\/p>\n

What we don’t often hear — because, at least up till now, it doesn’t seem to be as much fun, or get as much funding<\/em> — are the other associations that can be drawn between fatness and health.<\/p>\n

So, without further ado, I present you a few tidbits from this morning’s headlines:<\/p>\n