“…These overweight-/obesity-related comorbidities appear to be driven, in part, by decreases in insulin metabolic signaling in cardiac and renal tissue (fig. 1) [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50]. In addition to insulin resistance, several other mechanisms, such as enhanced activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), inflammation and oxidative stress, may help explain the linkage between overnutrition and heart and kidney disease.…”