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> neurodevelopmental diseases like ADHD (obesity prevalence higher in people with ADHD) Interesting. Every person I have ever known with ADHD was skinny, at l

> neurodevelopmental diseases like ADHD (obesity prevalence higher in people with ADHD) Interesting. Every person I have ever known with ADHD was skinny, at least compared to the people around them. Not saying my anecdata counts for anything, but it's funny how this works. Impulse control issues? Some comorbidity? Forgetfulness? For myself, at least, forgetting to eat makes me hungry, and then I overeat because I'm clearly going to wither away to nothing in moments and I lack self control. I'd be (more) overweight if this was a constant thing.

KittenInABox 2y ago
It might be that this is still undergoing research. Originally published in 2002 [1] a later followup paper in 2019 [2] points out ADHD points to a number of inflammation-related conditions like asthma and obesity. It's still not known the exact underlying mechanisms! I'm just really interested that obesity seems to be increasingly not a voluntary choice. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC130024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC130024/ 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826981/