Posted on 06/27/2013 2:24:27 AM PDT by neverdem
You’ll believe anything!
Truth is a rare comodity in the propaganda wing of the Med Mafia.
They just keep on picking groups that they can isolate, one at a time, and turn them into cash cows for the pharmaceutical industry, without any real evidence, and without any hope for benefit for the victims.
I’ve been doing a lot of study on the subject, and am pretty confident that the sum parts add up to an honest whole.
To start with, fat isn’t just an oil storage system, but a very important part of the immune system. Just one example of this are the MAST cell clusters. These produce histamines that create the symptoms of exposure to allergens, among other things, when they are irritated. They also tend to irritate other clusters of their type. This can maintain a vicious circle of irritation.
When people are of normal weight, they have a given number of these MAST cell clusters per quantity of fat. But when people become overweight, and the more overweight they become, they develop “more than proportionately” greater numbers of MAST cell clusters in their fat.
This means that fat people not only have a stronger immune response, but when they have an immune malfunction, like arthritis, it is much worse. So for years now, rheumatologists have strongly recommended that their obese patients diet, to ease their symptoms of arthritis and rheumatism.
And, as well, internal irritations of several kinds, as well as immune malfunctions, are definitely known to cause cancer.
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