A team of Norwegian doctors suggested that being overweight produces a chronic inflammatory immune response. “Mankind’s great challenge has consisted in obtaining sufficient food and surviving infections,” said one of the study’s authors. “Today, we rarely die of infections, but on the other hand we eat too much.”

A team of Norwegian doctors suggested that being overweight produces a chronic inflammatory immune response. “Mankind’s great challenge has consisted in obtaining sufficient food and surviving infections,” said one of the study’s authors. “Today, we rarely die of infections, but on the other hand we eat too much.”