The Obesity Epidemic

facts about why 'eating less and doing more' doesn't work

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    • Introduction
    • Part 1 – The general principle
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
    • Part 2 – The calorie formula
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 7
    • Part 3 – The diet advice
    • Chapter 8
    • Chapter 9
    • Chapter 10
    • Chapter 11
    • Chapter 12
    • Chapter 13
    • Chapter 14
    • Part 4 – How can we stop The Obesity Epidemic?
    • Chapter 15
    • Chapter 16
    • Summary
  • Reviews
  • About the author
  • Research

Chapter 1

Energy balance vs fat storage

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19 (*) http://www.whocollab.od.mah.se/expl/globalsugar.html
20 (*) Anita Chaudhuri and Jon Ungoed-Thomas, with additional reporting by Justin Stoneman, “A Dieter’s Dilemma”, The Sunday Times, (4 April 2010).
21 Eaton MacKay and H C Bergman, “The amount of water stored with glycogen in the liver”, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, (December 1933).
22 Rittenberg & Schoenheimer, “Further studies on the biological uptake of Deuterium into organic substances, with special reference to fat and cholesterol formation”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, (1937).
23 E. Wertheimer and B. Shapiro, “The Physiology of Adipose Tissue”, Physiological Reviews, (1948).
24 Sir Harold Himsworth, “Diabetes mellitus: its differentiation into insulin-sensitive and insulin-insensitive types”, The Lancet, (1936).
25 Rosalyn Yalow, Solomon Berson, “Immunoassay of endogenous plasma insulin in man”, Journal of Clinical Investigation, (1960).
26 William Banting, “Letter on Corpulence addressed to the public”, (1869).
27 Yalow RS, Glick SM, Roth J, Berson SA. “Plasma insulin and growth hormone levels in obesity and diabetes”. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, (1965).
28 Edgar Gordon, “A new concept in the treatment of obesity”, The Journal of the American Medical Association, (1963).

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  • "The Obesity Epidemic is the most comprehensive demolition job on the arrogance and ignorance of the health profession I have ever read".
    Barry Groves Author of Trick and Treat: How 'healthy eating' is making us ill


    “Zoe Harcombe unravels one of the biggest paradoxes of today: why levels of obesity are rising despite the fact our supermarkets are producing more products designed to help people lose weight and boost their health. Harcombe overturns long held myths about weight gain – and shows how processed foods are at the heart of the problem. Unless the food industry takes responsibility for this the future health costs will become unsustainable; no matter how efficient our system.”
    Lucy Johnston, Health Editor, Sunday Express

    “By the end of this book I had been convinced, where I have never been before, that switching from a high fat to a high carbohydrate diet is the single greatest cause of the recent obesity epidemic. Ironically, carbs are the very foodstuffs that we have been instructed to eat by the new army of obesity ‘experts." Dr Malcolm Kendrick, Author of The Great Cholesterol Con

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