Other Complications The complications from obesity are plentiful and include the development of gallstones, gout, chronic kidney disease, and non-alcoholic, fatty-liver disease to name just a few.
Mortality There is no doubt – being fat can kill you. A global consortium of researchers looked at data from more than 10 million people spanning more than 45 years and concluded that yes, overweight and obese people have an increased risk of premature death from all causes including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other life-threatening chronic diseases.4
The saddest part of all this is that obesity is easily reversible. But not in the way that the conventional diet industry or pharmaceutical and food giants would like you to believe. Let’s look at some of the myths that were keeping me fat – and probably hampering your own efforts to lose weight and get healthier too.
Dieting Myths The diet industry (which includes all those commercial diet programs, so-called diet doctors and the big food and pharma companies) will do anything to confuse you and prevent you from achieving lasting weight loss. Afterall, it's not a very good business model for any of them to really help you succeed is it? If you get healthy and lose the weight for good – well, there goes their profits, right? So they just keep telling you the same things over and over again. Let’s look at a few myths they exploit to stop you from seeing real results. 16
