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...found in the buttocks and thighs—may actually help prevent diabetes. Those with generous derrieres, or “pear-shaped” bodies, store subcutaneous fat in their hips and buttocks. Those with “apple-shaped” bodies tend to store weight around their abdomens. Researchers already knew abdominal obesity came with a higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. What Kahn wanted to know was what would happen if the fat from the two areas was switched. So he injected lower-body fat from mice into their abdomens. “What...
...doesn't make a lot of sense," says Lustig. "There are three medical threads that run through this e-mail, but unfortunately those threads don't make a very strong cable." No illness involving a combination of a hormone imbalance and a loss of proteins that causes dramatic weight loss could be remedied with a simple nutritional fix, Lustig says...
...Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, agrees. "They don't fit together for me," he says, while adding, "Nothing is that simple." The two most common hormone imbalances that would result in weight loss, according to Willett, are hyperthyroidism, in which an overactive gland ramps up metabolism, and type 1 diabetes. But while nutrition may certainly play a role in diabetes treatment, it has little to do with curing hyperthyroidism, Willett says...
...many of the conditions that cause the body to lose vital proteins are not endocrine in nature. If a patient were losing the proteins through urine, diabetes could be an explanation, but so could other conditions, including multiple myeloma, a cancer that causes symptoms ranging from bone pain to weight loss...
Another explanation for a protein deficiency is that the body is simply not producing enough of them - a symptom of conditions including hypothyroidism, in which the body underproduces necessary hormones, or Cushing's syndrome, Lustig says. But both conditions cause weight gain, not loss. Another possible cause is celiac disease, in which a gluten intolerance diminishes the body's ability to absorb nutrients, but that's a digestive order, not the result of a hormone imbalance, Lustig says. What's more, almost none of the hypothesized disorders involving hormone imbalance and protein deficiency can be treated with a basic change...