What an individual would recommend to a patient of 45 years with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and arthritic knees. The patient also has a large and smoothly distended abdomen as well as rolls of fat. Introduction : The maintenance of weight of body is an enormously complex homeostatic process involving many signaling molecules and hormones. Individuals differ both in their production of these molecules (signaling molecules and hormones) and in their responses toward them.

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What an individual would recommend to a patient of 45 years with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and arthritic knees. The patient also has a large and smoothly distended abdomen as well as rolls of fat.

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The maintenance of weight of body is an enormously complex homeostatic process involving many signaling molecules and hormones. Individuals differ both in their production of these molecules (signaling molecules and hormones) and in their responses toward them.

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