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
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Chapter 10

172 http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/
173 http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/pdf/Chapter3.pdf
174 http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/pdf/Chapter7.pdf
175 http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/pdf/Chapter6.pdf
176 Eugine Braunwald, Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 9th edition (2009).
177 http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/html/executivesummary.htm
178 (*) http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/09/making-moves-a-healthier-generation and www.letsmove.gov
179 (*) http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/dietsyn.htm
180 (*) http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubhlth-strateg-food-guide-index.htm
181 (*) http://www.readnrock.com/?p=27
182 (*) http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/eighttipssection/8tips/
183 (*) This is generally called “The Government’s eight guidelines for a healthy diet.” I originally found the reference on www.nutrition.org.uk – the site for the British Nutrition Foundation. In March 2010, while sourcing the references for this book, I found it at http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/bghbooklet.pdf – interestingly a Food Standards Agency web site. So two different eight tips can be found on the current FSA web site.
184 (*) http://www.nhs.uk/change4life
185 (*) http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Healthimprovement/Obesity/HealthyWeight/index.htm
186 (*) Source = http://www.whocollab.od.mah.se/expl/globalsugar.html
187 (*) http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2007/sep/plate
188 (*) http://www.food.gov.uk/healthiereating/eatwellplate/howdiffers
189 (*) http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/publication/eatwellplate0210.pdf
190 (*) http://www.wakeuptonutella.com/faq.html
191 (*) http://www.nutellausa.com/nutrition.htm
192 (*) http://www.defra.gov.uk/evidence/statistics/foodfarm/food/familyfood/documents/familyfood-2008.pdf
193 Rebecca Wilcox, UK BBC 3, Who made me fat?, (30 October 2009). Repeated on BBC 1 (1 March 2010).

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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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