obesity ⁽³⁾

The other day Dr. Lustig revealed the cover of his new book on Twitter. It reminded me that his first one was still in my bookshelf, unread. It turned out to be a good read. At the time of writing, he'd spent sixteen years treating…

The remedy may be as old as the hills, as I have since been told, but its application is of very recent date; and it astonishes me that such a light should have remained so long unnoticed and hidden... William Banting was a man who…

To explain obesity by overeating is as illuminating a statement as an explanation of alcoholism by chronic overdrinking. In The Diet Delusion Gary Taubes showed how nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War when the European scientific community in the…