Talk:Obesity
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Protein to carbohydrate+fat ratio as cause of obesity
An excellent article about the cause of obesity by Simpson and Raubenheimer from 2005 with more than 300 citations: https://www.swissmilk.ch/fr/services/professionnels-de-la-sante/materiel-dinformation/low-carb-plus/-dl-/fileadmin/filemount/k/simpson-05-obesity-the-protein-leverage-hypothesis.pdf
"Flabbiness" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect Flabbiness has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 April 17 § Flabbiness until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer1234qwer4 23:42, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
Excessively technical
This article needs a thorough rewrite, at least in the lede, because it is excessively technical and hard to understand even for a nonspecialist who knows a little biochemistry.
It also needs to acknowledge that it is only about a medical definition of obesity, while it ignores the ordinary meaning. Doctors have defined a disease called "obesity" (using an arbitrarily chosen BMI) but the word still has its common English meaning, which is different. Zaslav (talk) 04:31, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
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The legend text in the first figure in the Diet section is unreadable in dark mode. The text does not turn white like the article text or like in other similar figure legends.
Cf. similar figure in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_and_obesity
Edit suggestion: either fix the style of the text to work in Dark and Automatic modes or report an underlying bug so it can be fixed elsewhere. Portadapter (talk) 10:10, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. This template is only for when you know exactly what edits you want made, and are able to give people text to copy and paste, not to raise issues without explicit solutions. meamemg (talk) 14:22, 28 July 2025 (UTC)- Fixed it. There was a background color tag in the table for some reason. Freezerburn 15:22, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
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