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EPISODE · Jun 7, 2025 · 4 MIN

Research questions the relationship between weight and health issues

from Weight and Healthcare · host Ragen Chastain

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.” Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe

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