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We demand a seat at the table. The leadership table. The funding table. The NIH study section table. The high impact authorship table. All are places we deserve to be, yet you don’t find many faces like mine in places like these. You certainly don’t find many experiences like mine.
Whether or not there is a form of healthy obesity remains controversial. Contemporary imaging techniques might help answer this question. It is proposed that low levels of visceral adipose tissue and ectopic adipose tissue combined with a preferential accumulation of gluteal and femoral adipose tissue might define a ‘super healthy obesity’ phenotype.