The health problems 1 with fatness may not be caused by It but be another-|||-conseovence,another sympl of overeating.-|||-That is the heretical(异端邪说的) 2 of Roger Unger and Phllipp Scherer.They have been 3 翻-|||-sclence of what has come to be known as metabouc.syndinme (fearea症).This is a host of symptoms such as hIgh blood pressunen Insulln(期号-|||-素)resistance and fatness that seem to increase the 4 of heart disease and strokes and INer disease. Mitetabolle syndrome 13-|||- 5 in tan theta -sin x of the American population,-|||-"Syndrome" is the medical term for a 6 of symptoms whose common cause is not propeny undetstood.The symplom of-|||-metabollc syndrome that appears first is usually fatness,so this is generally regarded as the 7 cause.-|||-Dr. Unger and Dr.Scherer, however,turn this logic on its head.They point out that there is usually a perlod of many yeare botween a person-|||-becoming ovenwelght and his 8 other symptoms.II the growth of the body cells was directly hatmlut that would not be the-|||-case. This is one of the lines of evidence that has led them to the concluslon that, in addition to its role In storing energy as a way to-|||- 9 agalnst future famine,getting fat is a 10 mechantsin nganst metabou syndromm