小心! 瘦人也會得與肥胖有關的各類疾病!

Imagine you're a doctor. You look at your chart and you see that your next patient has Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

假設你是個醫生，正在看圖表，而此時你看到下一個病人得了二型糖尿病，還有高血壓和高膽固醇等症狀。

You expect before going into the examination room that you're going to have to discuss how to live with diabetes. Discuss ways to integrate a healthy diet and weight loss routine into the patient's lifestyle.

在進入檢查室之前，你還在期望和你的病人談談怎樣對付糖尿病，日常生活中如何健康飲食，怎樣減肥等等。

When you enter the room, the patient is different than you expected. She is 5'7″ and only 120 lbs. To look at her, no one would guess that she has all these illnesses commonly associated with obesity.

但走進檢查室看到病人後，你才發現情況和你想象的完全不一樣。病人大約5英尺7英寸，約摸只有120磅。看着她，沒人會想到她也會得這些通常與肥胖相關的疾病。

What the theoretical patient has is called lipodystrophy. Lipodystrophy is a genetic condition where a person has an abnormal lack of fatty tissues.

理論上來講，這個病人得了一種名爲脂肪代謝障礙的疾病，其形成原因是病人異常缺乏脂肪組織。

Someone with this condition may say they feel hungry all the time. She might be able to eat endlessly and not appear to gain any weight.

這種情況下的病人他們會一直有餓感。她可能會一直吃一直吃，也不會變胖。

For obese patients who have those symptoms, they occur because their fatty tissue is already storing fat.

對於有上述症狀的肥胖病人來說，病症的出現是因爲他們的脂肪組織已經在存儲脂肪。

Initially, a patient will keep gaining weight, but when their fatty tissue reaches its limits, the body attempts to find new locations the new fat.

最初，病人的體重會持續增加，但是當他們的脂肪組織存儲到極限時，身體開始嘗試找新的脂肪存儲點。

So the fat goes to place like the liver, heart, and pancreas. The above symptoms like Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure then occur.

所以此時脂肪就會堆積到肝臟，心臟，胰腺等位置，隨後二型糖尿性、高膽固醇、高血壓等病症也就出現了。