According to the Center for Science in Public Interest’s new book Restaurant Confidential, an appetizer of cheese fries packs 3,000 calories, 217 grams of total fat, and 90 grams of artery clogging saturated fat. That 500-1000 calories more than the average person needs for an entire day and enough saturated fat to exceed what is [...]
A landmark, new report confirms something I have strongly suspected for some time, and should have profound implications for our approach to combating the crushing burden the obesity epidemic continues to place on our society. Reporting at the European Congress on Obesity (Amsterdam, May 09), scientists determined that the meteoric uptick in our obesity rates [...]
The “viral hypothesis” is provocative but should not serve as a distraction from the forces that have already been scientifically substantiated to be driving the obesity epidemic. This gargantuan public health debacle can be largely attributed to the simple interaction of a toxic and highly permissible food environment (that is completely at odds [...]
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