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Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by hammock on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:41PM (#20637584)
>nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, decreased insulin sensitivity, type two diabetes, and metabolic syndrome

All of these ailments are typically comorbid with obesity, so saying "fat" is a shorthand way of getting at these things in a limited-space headline.

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Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by lazyguy on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:51PM (#20637675)
Right but you don't need to be fat to get any of them. They are just 'associated' with it. As in they are diseases that are more likely to impact fat people.
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Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by AstralStorm on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:41PM (#20646684)
Is there any direct evidence of causation or is someone shooting the wind again?

(There are ways to do it, but it's extremely hard and finicky math.)

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