Intermittent Thoughts on Insulin Resistance: Episode I of the "Insulin Resistance Saga" - Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Lurks on Your Way to the Kindergarten
Image 1: Map with the 2007 Rates of Overweight and Obese Children in the USA. With a childhood obesity rate of 44.4% Mississipi is the uncontested no.1 (source NCSL ) When we look back at the last installment of the Intermittent Thoughts the maybe surprising, maybe foreseeable end of the "Insulin Resistance Saga" was that that our protagonist, the human body ended up in a state, in which its cells are starving - and that despite exogenous, as well as as endogenous overabundance of energy in form of readily available calorically dense food (exogenous) and body fat stores that are bursting at the seams... but was it really Granny's pie that is to blame for all of that? Or was not enough exercise, after all? I guess to answer these and other questions and to get a little more insight into what people like to call the etiology of something - in this case, obviously insulin resistance and the obesity epidemic - we will have to go back, way back in time... Flashback to ...