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FRAGMENT IN NATURE, a break in our ongoing theme. This time we focus on soap bubbles, a charming subject that has engaged the most serious minds for a long time. This natural phenomenon raises interesting mathematics, and laws of physics. It also gives deep insights into the very mysterious subject of cell membranes. View in LinkedIn

US LIFESTYLE FAILURE. "Stress, the standard American diet and the industrialization of food have all been blamed in the obesity epidemic. While all of these factors contribute to being obese, they also create critical biological imbalances that people cannot overcome." https://lnkd.in/d-Du5bB View in LinkedIn

OBESITY AS A DISEASE. "Obesity, like alcoholism, depression, and anxiety, is a disease. There are definite medical patterns: hormone imbalances, neurotransmitter deficiencies and nutritional exhaustion that all contribute to obesity. Many of my patients that are obese have underlying medical issues that need to be addressed." https://lnkd.in/d-Du5bB View in LinkedIn

OBESITY AND SEQUELAE. "The simple fact is that obesity is a disease, a chronic, frequently progressive, and rarely remitting disorder that triggers an additional 65 or more other conditions ranging from arthritis and sleep apnea to many forms of cancer." (Lee M. Kaplan, M.D., director of the Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chairman emeritus of the Campaign to End Obesity). https://lnkd.in/dxdw6TP View in LinkedIn

MEDICAL OPINION SWINGS. "The AMA is just the latest organization to put obesity in its category of diseases, joining the World Health Organization, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and others." https://lnkd.in/d6WkEAC View in LinkedIn

NO LONGER A SOCIAL STIGMA. "Obesity is not a social stigma but an actual disease." https://lnkd.in/des_Tnv View in LinkedIn

US PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER. "Two out of three adults and one out of three children in the United States are overweight or obese, and the nation spends an estimated $190 billion a year treating obesity-related health conditions." http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sugary-drinks-fact-sheet/ View in LinkedIn

MINIMAL ENERGY. "The spherical shape of a soap bubble nicely displays the principle of energy minimization. Surface tension causes the bubble to form a sphere because this shape, as proposed by Archimedes and proven rigorously by Schwarz in 1884, is the minimal surface enclosing a fixed given volume." https://lnkd.in/dB43fJY View in LinkedIn

OBESITY OVERLOAD. "Look at the waistlines of America, and you can see snacking is a growth business," says John McMillin, food analyst for Prudential Securities. The rate of obesity in the United States soared by 50 percent in the last decade, with nearly one in five Americans now seriously overweight. Poor diet and lack of exercise is second only to cigarette smoking as a leading cause of death in America." http://www.newsweek.com/bring-junk-food-161601 View in LinkedIn

"A TRUE MINIMAL SURFACE is more properly illustrated by a soap film, which has equal pressure on inside as outside, hence is a surface with zero mean curvature. A soap bubble is a closed soap film: due to the difference in outside and inside pressure, it is a surface of constant mean curvature." https://lnkd.in/d5zN4He View in LinkedIn