This is not new news, but people really don&#x27;t want to hear that being fat is bad in the sense of greatly raising the risk of all common age-related disease and reducing life expectancy.<p>E.g. here is news from 2011, covering a demonstration of reversing type 2 diabetes via low calorie diets:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-13887909" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-13887909</a><p>Note that the diabetes you create through your negligence is not the same as the diabetes you develop by being old and suffering an age-altered immune system:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salk.edu&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;blocking-immune-cell-treats-new-type-age-related-diabetes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salk.edu&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;blocking-immune-cell-treats...</a>