The Obesity Epidemic

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

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    • Part 1 – The general principle
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    • 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 3

34 A report of the Royal College of Physicians, “Obesity”, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, (January 1983).
35 Metcalf et al, “Fatness leads to inactivity, but inactivity does not lead to fatness: a longitudinal study in children (EarlyBird 45)”, Archives of Disease in Childhood, (June 2010).
36 Rotterdam Consensus Workshop Group, “Revised 2003 consensus on diagnostic criteria and long-term health risks related to polycystic ovary syndrome”, Fertility & Sterility, (January 2004).
37 Wilhem Falta, Endocrine diseases including their diagnosis and treatment, (1923).
38 George N. Wade and Janet M. Gray, “Gonadal effects on food intake and adiposity: A metabolic hypothesis“, Physiology & Behavior, (March 1979).
Finn Molgaard Hansen, Nibal Fahmy and Jens Hoiriis Nielsen, “The influence of sexual hormones on lipogenesis and lipolysis in rat fat cells“, European Journal of Endocrinology, (1980).
These represent two examples. The evidence is so extensive that the term “ovariectomy-induced obesity” is widely used.
39 W.S. Leslie, C.R. Hankey and M.E.J. Lean, “Weight gain as an adverse effect of some commonly prescribed drugs: a systematic review” QJM, (June 2007).
40 DCCT Research Group, “Influence of intensive diabetes treatment on bodyweight and composition of adults with type 1 diabetes in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial”, Diabetes Care, (2001).
41 UKPDS Group, “Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes”, The Lancet, (1998).
42 Marbury T., Huang W.C., Strange P., Lebovitz H., “Repaglinide versus glyburide: a one-year comparison trial”, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, (1999).
43 Must A., Spadano J., Coakley E.H., Field A.E. et al, “The disease burden associated with overweight and obesity”, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), (1999).
44 Colditz G.A., Willet W.C., Rotnitzky A. et al, “Weight gain as a risk factor for clinical diabetes mellitus in women”, Annals of Internal Medicine, (1995).
45 (*) http://www.abpi.org.uk/statistics/section.asp?sect=4
46 (*) http://www.mentalhealthnurse.co.uk/images/Psychopharmacology/Clozaril%20PIL.pdf

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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".
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    “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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