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There are many types of obesity – which one matters to your health

  • Written by Amalio Telenti, Affiliate faculty in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD ; Professor of Genomics at Scripps, The Scripps Research Institute
Some forms of obesity severely disrupt the metabolic pathways that keep us healthy.Farik gallery, MarShot / Shutterstock.com / Evans Love

Our society seems to have accepted that gaining weight is an inevitable consequence of growing up in a place with easy access to calories and where physical activity plays a declining role in our professional and...

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