Also, I’m thinking that for patients with metabolic syndrome, keeping the weight down might help mitigate some of the cardiac risk factors as well as delaying the onset of diabetes.
That’s the dirty little secret that “they” don’t want you to know about. Smokers are thinner, not only because it is an appetitie supressant, and has some natural thinning properties, but because they get their oral fixation that way. You’re not filling the void with chips while smoking. IMHO, it’s completely un-PC, but with the advent of smoking bans everywhere, you had the astronomical weight gains in the population as a whole. One theory is that humans were designed to take a low level of smoke every day. Not from cigarettes necessarily, but from campfires, cooking, etc. It kept our lungs “exercised” and our weight down. Now with no real challenges for our lungs, they become immunologically weak and therefore the INCREASE in asthma since smoking was banned in public. We’re going to see increases in obesity and asthma from now until forever.