strong is the new skinny. I don't want to pit those two things against each other, but I do want to like if you are obese , you are much better not being obese , right?Mhm. But it is the pursuit of skinny at the sacrificial altar of everything else. So, if you are
Like they looked on paper, if you would have shown me their metabolic data, I would go, "Oh, this is an overweight obese person." So these are these are lean but metabolically unhealthy people and a large percentage of that has to do with an increase in visceral fat. Youwon't even necessarily know that you're getting higher amounts of v visceral fat. It's not necessarily going to be reflected on the scale. You know, you
now is pediatric obesity, childhood obesity. It's just gone through the roof. you're seeing these three four year olds are actually obese . What do microbes have to do with this? The answer is everything. So several years ago, an guy named JeffGordon did some really neat experiments.
microbes seem to be controlling this whole thing. That actually makes sense because the microbes break down a lot of what you eat. And we know that in the obese um animals and people, the microbes in there are really really goodat generating extra energy per per unit of food coming in. They're really good at it. And um the microbes from the thin
But they're engaged in heavy labor, heavy, manual, physical labor. So we can assume on a day-to-day basis they are more physically active than we are. And yet, 30 percent are obese and nearly 50 percent--half of them--over 54.And here's the last study I'll show you. This is Mexican Americans in Starr County, Texas in 1981. Fifty percent of the women in their 50s are obese , 40 percent of the men in their
and we analyzed those uh those individuals for those characteristics and we found that 50% of obese individuals 30% of overweight individuals and 177% of healthy weight individuals report very high on thoseStreet characteristics now that may not seem like a lot of people but if you extrapolate and there's risks of
the friend of mine was there having beautiful plant of basil and was going obese and uh because we have first of all you know we don't have breakfast
Kidney disease does, in fact, increase mortality. And obese people in general have higher mortality. So, again, none of that was surprising.
And what I saw was that racial barriers, and pecking order-- you know what I mean, in the traditional pecking order, the obese kid wasn't really respected. But now he was respected.
Whether you have your hypertension treated is important, but not as important as some other things. How obese you are. That was a huge surprise to me.
And of your own confidence. Being obese is not a good idea.
He's skinny but after the DEXA scan they said that he had too much visceral fat which I I thought vis I thought you must be like big or obese to have visceral fat but he's a skinny guy and the DEXA scan said too much visceral fat. Yes, that's the thing. You know, I was involved in clinical research for many years when I was doing my post-graduate training. And we were looking at
But the reality is, it's really a humbling sport or activity. But he was obese .
This is a epidemiological study coming out of Northeastern University just published last year about 1,000 under age drinkers 13 to 19 years old. And these are obese shoppers or non-obese shoppers.
This is a epidemiological study coming out of Northeastern University just published last year about 1,000 under age drinkers 13 to 19 years old. For the non-obese shoppers, these primes in the recipe flyers do not make any difference on their purchases.
This is a rodent that has a mutant circadian clock. It becomes obese . It develops the features of diabetes. And these two rodents are actually twins.
We gotta pay attention when he's-- So then when I first asked who the best was, there was this kid in the back. He was obese . He was like 300 pounds. He was in the back.
And he persuaded himself that he could see, if you had a candle, you could see phlogiston or elemental fire being released by the candle. And that's really obese in the United States from 1985 until today.
We were walking on fours, all four. You can call a obese man obese , short man short, tall man tall.
Sometimes I say obese .
We are more obese .
room will have about obese people.
It's held by obese people.
They were from 100 obese families and 100 non-obese .
average chance of getting obese for the following reasons.
That's what an obese person feels like.
population was overweight or obese and that's one and a half billion people
true if you are obese you are at much higher risk however you can be fit you can be thin you can be a very even you
So, this was a German-Austrian hypothesis prior to World War II. It was known as the lipophilia hypothesis. I'll explain that in a second. The primary proponents where Gustav could get obese in a population where their children are starving because it didn't matter how little food there was. If there was something driving their accumulation of fat, they were
So, this was a German-Austrian hypothesis prior to World War II. It was known as the lipophilia hypothesis. I'll explain that in a second. The primary proponents where Gustav were very obese , who had been obese the longest, and women more so than men, because women have the sex hormones are much more, that play a much greater role in their fattening.
now are obese of course another problem is is that they don't go outside and play anymore children really need
term for skinny fat is TOFI, thin on the outside, fat on the inside. This is a woman who doesn't present as obese , but her body composition, she's starting to see a loss of maybe bone loss, a loss of muscle because she is not she's very
They're less likely to become obese .
42% of the country is obese .
You want freedom from getting obese without thinking about it, because you're constantly eating calorie dense, nutrient poor foods that
And it's making them obese .
So I was considered medically obese .
Everyone else in my family is obese -- everyone, for the most part.
I grew up in a morbidly obese family.
or if you were morbidly obese .
And 38% of adults are now obese .
And perhaps we wouldn't be obese if we taught more cooking healthy.
It's that they're obese .
71% of Americans are either overweight or obese so when I say in my speeches I want to encourage you to aim higher in
15% of men worldwide are obese , and only 11% of women worldwide are obese .
By just transplanting the microbes from an obese and a mouse with a veracious appetite,
If we make two of the friends obese , will that be interesting?
There was more in the obese people, so it was concluded that the microbiome was associated with obesity, and perhaps even playing
did between the lean and obese in each study.
We didn't become a nation of obese people overnight.