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
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Chapter 9

160 Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, (Using age adjusted data), http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm (data page), ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Publications/Health_US/hus09tables/09contents_tables.pdf, (detailed list of data available).
161 http://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/table-4.pdf
162 James P. Carter, “Eating in America; Dietary Goals for the United States; Report of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, U.S. Senate“, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, (January 1977).
163 Elizabeth J. Parks, “Effect of dietary carbohydrate on triglyceride metabolism in humans”, The Journal of Nutrition, (2001).
164 http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/DietaryGuidelines/1980/DG1980pub.pdf
165 E. Newbrun, “Sugar & Dental Caries: A review of Human Studies”, Science 217, (1982).
166 Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy, “Diet and Cardiovascular Disease: Report of the Panel on Diet in Relation to Cardiovascular Disease”, (1984). (This is out of print. Barlow Moor Books found me an original copy).
167 Dariush Mozaffarian, Martijn B. Katan, Alberto Ascherio, Walter C. Willett, et al, “Trans Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease”, New England Journal of Medicine, (April 2006).
168 Peter M. Clifton, Jennifer B. Keogh and Manny Noakes, “Trans Fatty Acids in Adipose Tissue and the Food Supply Are Associated with Myocardial Infarction“, The American Society for Nutritional Sciences Journal of Nutrition, (April 2004).
169 John Yudkin, Pure, White and Deadly, (1972).
170 Denis Burkitt, Don’t Forget Fibre in Your Diet, (1979).
171 (*) http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/1980_2000_chart.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".
    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.”
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    “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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