Gluttony, sloth and metabolic syndrome

There was a fabulous post by Peter at Hyperlipid today. I enjoyed his figures so much, I had to pass them on.

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2010/03/getting-fat-is-good-official.html

The issue here is correctly identifying cause and effect; something which I’ve noticed is a common problem in many aspects of modern society.

[[MORE]]Here's the diagram from the original paper Peter mentions, which claims that gluttony and sloth cause hyperinsulinemia, which in turn causes a host of additional maladies:



Here's Peter's alternative diagrams, which more accurately represent cause and effect: