The overwhelming majority of type 2 diabetes patients suffer their condition because they became significantly overweight. Being significantly overweight clearly produces the metabolic syndrome that leads to type 2 diabetes, and the more visceral fat tissue, the worse off you are. In this sense type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle condition, a choice. Attempting to explain Alzheimer’s disease in the same way runs into an immediate challenge, in that there is no such very clear cause and effect. Too large a fraction of significantly overweight people do not develop Alzheimer’s, and being overweight doesn’t appear to correlate with the better explored aspects of cellular biochemistry k…
Recent Thought on Alzheimer's Disease as a Lifestyle Condition
The overwhelming majority of type 2 diabetes patients suffer their condition because they became significantly overweight. Being significantly overweight clearly produces the metabolic syndrome that leads to type 2 diabetes, and the more visceral fat tissue, the worse off you are. In this sense type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle condition, a choice. Attempting to explain Alzheimer’s disease in the same way runs into an immediate challenge, in that there is no such very clear cause and effect. Too large a fraction of significantly overweight people do not develop Alzheimer’s, and being overweight doesn’t appear to correlate with the better explored aspects of cellular biochemistry k…