General Schematic of Relationships between Diet, Overfat, Some Risk Factors, and Chronic Illness (IMAGE)

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General Schematic of Relationships between Diet, Overfat, Some Risk Factors, and Chronic Illness

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Rather than thinking of these disorders as separate, individual clinical problems, it might be best to consider the relationships between overfat, its various risks, and its associated downstream diseases as a spectrum or progression where the vicious cycle of overfat, insulin resistance and chronic inflammation lies at one end, (constituting the population with early measurable abnormality), while the presence of chronic conditions resides at the other end.

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Maffetone, Rivera-Dominguez and Laursen.

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