It is just possible,though, that almost everyone is wrong.In fact,getting fat may be a-|||-mechanism that protects the body. The health problems 1 with fatness may not be caused by It but be another-|||-consequence, another symp of overeating-|||-That Is the heretical(异端邪说的) 2 of Roger Unger and Philipp Scherer.They have been 3 hu-|||-science of what has come to be known as metabollc syndrome(代谢综合症).This Is a host of symptoms such as high blood pressure, lnsulin (周喝-|||-素)resistance and fatness that seem to Increase the 4 of heart disease and strokes and liver disease,Metabolic syndrome is-|||- 5 In one-sixth of the American population.-|||-"Syndrome" is the medical term for a 6 of symptoms whose common cause is not propenly understood.The syinplom of-|||-metabolic 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 between a person-|||-becoming overweight and h 8 other symploms.If the growth of the body cells was dlrectly harmful that would not be the-|||-case.This is one of the lines of evidence that has led them to the conclusion that, in addition to its role in storing energy as a way to-|||- 9 against future famine,getting fat is a 10 mechanism against metabol syndrome