Dieting to lose weight is pointless

Low fat diets and exercise are pointles

avoid fat was ‘false and misleading’

fuelling the obesity epidemic

exercising was useless

Consuming: huge levels of calories from carbohydrates and sugars

obesity epidemic = 1919 flu epidemic

Many years: due to lack of exercise

But: Lots of exercise to take a pound of fat off.

Theories:

genetics, epigenetic, psychological disturbances

No cause

Impossible to be obese --> unless one is eating too many calories.

low-fat and low-cholesterol message

increased consumption of junk food and carbohydrates

Add fat.

delays the emptying of the stomach,

fat has been absorbed the stomach

balance mechanism

Prevent: obese

Researchers at Imperial College

Britons

the fattest in Europe within a decade

costing the country a fortune

complex issue: no single solution

Obese people should simply eat less

Surgeon: Lord McColl

some gain even more weight afterward

https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/718051/systematic-review-evaluation-major-commercial-weight-loss-programs-united-states?doi=10.7326%2f0003-4819-142-1-200501040-00012

weight was gained back within two years

short term= ok

Not for the long term

Lecerf: human body ==> state of emergency

Look at the quantity

Muscle breakdown