Gary Taubes – Why the Campaign to Stop America’s Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing

Gary Taubes writes a cover treatment in the latest Newsweek and lambastes the conventional wisdom regarding the causes of the US obesity epidemic and the addled recommendations that are proposed to rectify it. In his cross hairs are the usual suspects: too many carbohydrates (in the form of sugar), a scientific establishment that is all but derelict in their duty, and a dogmatic (though unsupported) belief in the weight-loss benefits of exercise in combating obesity.

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