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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Summary

386 Thomas Hawkes Tanner, The Practice of Medicine, (p217), (1869).
387 Letter from the FSA to Zoë Harcombe (25 September 2009).
388 Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy, “Diet and Cardiovascular Disease: Report of the Panel on Diet in Relation to Cardiovascular Disease”, (1984).
389 A Stewart Truswell, “Review of dietary intervention studies: effect on coronary events and on total mortality”, Australian New Zealand Journal of Medicine, (1994).
390 Letter from the FSA to Zoë Harcombe, (25 September 2009).
391 Robert H. Lustig, “The Fructose Epidemic”, The Bariatrician, (June 2009).
392 Chief Medical Officer’s report for England 2009 (published April 2010).
393 (*) http://www.fortune500s.net/pep.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29#cite_note-0
394 The Centre for Science in the Public Interest calls McDonald’s “The stranger in the playground”, http://www.cspinet.org/
395 David Kessler, The end of overeating, Published by Rodale, (2009).
396 Swinburn B., “Increased energy intake alone virtually explains all the increase in body weight in the United States from the 1970s to the 2000s”, 2009 European Congress on Obesity, (May 6-9, 2009). Abstract T1:RS3.3.
397 Barry Groves’ presentation at the Weston Price Foundation inauguration European conference, London, (21 March 2010).
398 Marjorie R. Freedman, Janet King, and Eileen Kennedy, “Popular Diets: A Scientific Review”, Obesity Research, (March 2001).
399 (*) http://www.cdrnet.org/certifications/licensure/index.htm and http://www.anh-usa.org/playing-monopoly-with-our-health/

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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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