Over the last few decades there’s been a lot of competing theories as to the root cause of obesity. The most common one promoted by the mainstream

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2024-11-14 16:30:03

Over the last few decades there’s been a lot of competing theories as to the root cause of obesity. The most common one promoted by the mainstream medical establishment is the simplistic notion of excess calories. Basically, it’s the claim that: Weight gain / loss = calories in – calories out. Of course, calorie restriction diets never work because they are simply not sustainable. In most cases they are just yo-yo diets that ultimately lead to even more weight gain over the long term. Many people have concluded that the calorie theory of weight gain is complete garbage science. To add my own $0.02 to it, in my recent blog post on Niacin I discussed that even though I consumed a huge amount of extra calories, and for nine consecutive months, I didn’t gain a single pound. So, yes, the calories in minus calories out theory is rubbish.

Then there are a bunch of other prevailing theories such as: “it’s low quality carbs”, “it’s mutant wheat”,” it’s the x, y or z fats”, ”it’s the x/y/z fat ratios”, “it’s fructose”, “it’s sedentary lifestyles”, etc, etc. I’m not going to discuss any of those. Although there may be some amount of truth to those theories, I think they are mostly not at all the root cause. However, there is another somewhat popular theory that the increased consumption of seed oils is at the root cause of the obesity epidemic. I do think that theory is indeed quite correct, but it’s not for the reason most people think it is. More on that topic later.

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