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#212 - The neuroscience of obesity | Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D.

The Peter Attia Drive

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Is There an Extreme Category of Obesity?

In the 19 sixties, 12% of us adults had obesity. Now it's something like nine or ten%. So there has been more movement at the extreme end than at the mean. If you look at the distribution of b m is. It used to be a lot tighter, and it just got less tight. There are still people who are lean. But since it has spread out, you get a disproportionate increase at extreme values.

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