YesProfessor Carel Le Roux Professor of Metabolic Medicine at Ulster UniversityAre you struggling to lose weight, despite your best efforts? That’s because many obesity experts are now convinced that rather than simply being the result of poor lifestyle choices, obesity is actually a biological disease — and specifically a disease of the brain. But it’s now clear to me and most other experts in obesity medicine that it’s the disease of obesity that causes people to over-eat — rather than the other way around. But you really shouldn’tThe World Health Organization and countries including the U.S. and Japan already recognise obesity as a disease. But this isn’t a disease: a disease is something that happens to us.

Source: Daily Mail April 05, 2022 01:31 UTC