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For the last 60 years, physicians and public-health authorities have been giving that exact same advice to obese people—children and adults—with little or no success

The subjects experience modest weight loss (maybe nine or 10 pounds in the first six months), and then they gain the weight right back. Weight loss doesn't last

The researchers enrolled nearly 50,000 mostly overweight or obese women into the trial, chose roughly 20,000 of them at random, and instructed that group to eat a low-fat diet, rich in fruits, vegetables, and fiber. These women were given regular counseling to motivate them to stay on the diet. If we believe what these women said they were eating, they also cut their average energy intake by well more than 300 calories a day

Conclusions Physical inactivity appears to be the result of fatness rather than its cause. This reverse causality may explain why attempts to tackle childhood obesity by promoting PA have been largely unsuccessful

HFCS has been shown to interfere with a key enzyme in the body that delivers copper to your vital organs. This effectively results in copper deficiency for many, adversely impacting a wide range of organ systems including the heart, testes, pancreas, and damaging the liver-generating inflammation and cirrhosis. It has been strongly linked to the sharp rise in both obesity and diabetes. Furthermore, fructose is 20-30 times more gylcating than glucose. It turns anyone into a raging AGE-producing factory. Animals fed a high-fructose diet in laboratory studies developed livers that looked a lot like those of hardcore, aging alcoholics-inflamed and shot through with dead cells and scar tissue-the condition known as “cirrhosis.”

Conclusions Physical activity can significantly improve motor skills but did not reduce body mass index in young children in this trial

545 children in their preschool year, mean age 4.2 years (SD 0.2) at baseline.

until I read Good Calories, Bad Calories (GCBC) by Gary Taubes I still thought that food was just fuel and obesity was always due to bad genes, or overeating, or lack of exercise - the usual suspects

Some diseases that are very common today, which we call Diseases of Civilization or DOCs, do not occur with any frequency in native or hunter-gatherer populations until western foods are introduced

The background assumption was that cancer, heart disease and obesity are only issues because we live long enough to get them now, and aren’t we lucky for modern medicine?

Babies and Beverages – “A study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that reduction in sugar-sweetened beverages (regular soda, fruit drinks and fruit punch) had a significant effect on weight change at 6 months and 18 months, even more of an impact than solid- calorie reduction.”

Liquid caloric consumption can be quite a significant contribution to weight gain so this is a tremendous effort to educate the public,” said Dr. Bartfield

Take Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, one of the most high-profile examples of this mistaken approach to the problem. The principles of Let's Move! sound good. Who would be against getting kids to be more physically active and eat more fruits and vegetables? But anyone who thinks that will reverse the obesity epidemic is sorely mistaken

The low-fat trend finally appears to be on its way out. The notion that saturated fats are detrimental to our health is deeply embedded in our Zeitgeist--but shockingly, the opposite just might be true

the brain's response to fructose is very different to the response to glucose, which is less likely to promote weight gain

This study provides evidence in humans that fructose and glucose elicits opposite responses in the brain. It supports the animal research that shows similar findings and links fructose with obesity

The gaining of knowledge is ultimately for your own use. If you offer it to someone and they don’t take it, the ultimate benefit has still been gained

Your workout should fit around your job, not the other way round

Bernard Gesch is probably the most important scientist in world studying effects of nutrition and behaviour right now

Aylesbury Young Offenders Institute, where half the prisoners got a food supplement, the other half a placebo. Result? The ones receiving a real supplement committed 37% fewer violent offences. Placebos – no change. Stunning

Sugar + processed food = increases in violence.