Is Obesity a Disease or a Signal? (ft. Mary Putre)

What if obesity isn’t a disease—but a signal your body has been trying to send for decades? This conversation challenges everything you think you know about metabolism, nutrition, and health. In this powerful episode of INsights & Straight Talk with Rodd Duff & Producer Barbie, we go deeper into one of the most misunderstood health debates of our time: Is obesity truly a disease—or is it a symptom of long-term nutrient deficiency and metabolic dysfunction? Rodd Duff sits down with Mary Putre, author of You Know Fat Mary, to unpack a lifetime of lived experience, research, and hard-earned insight. Together, they explore how processed food systems, fragmented health education, and generational habits have shaped today’s health crisis. This isn’t a surface-level conversation—it’s a systems-level breakdown connecting metabolism, food, education, and the future of community health through the lens of Mangum 2030.