Hangxing Jia‡Corresponding author: Hangxing Jia ( jiahangxing@163.com ) © Hangxing Jia. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Jia H (2023) The energy-rush and insulin model of obesity. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e108755 |  |
Obesity has been a global health problem since the 1980s. Despite the intensive research, there is no scientific consensus on the onset of obesity. The energy balance model (EBM) and the carbohydrate-insulin model (CIM) are two competing obesity theories, each with supporting and conflicting evidence. In this essay, I propose a new model, the energy-rush and insulin model (ERIM) which integrates not only the energy intake and expenditure but also the food composition and digestibility, to explain how the high energy-rush and insulin secretion contribute to the development of obesity. The ERIM offers a novel framework to explain how obesity occurs and proposes new recommendations for obesity management which may reverse the obesity epidemic In the future.