Article questions our understanding of the cause of obesity If we are to make any progress in tackling the obesity crisis, we have to look again at what really makes us fat, claims an article published in this week's BMJ. Gary Taubes, co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative, argues that our understanding of the cause of obesity may be incorrect, and that rectifying this misconception is "absolutely critical" to future progress. "What we want to know," he says, "is what causes us to gain weight, not whether weight loss can be induced under different conditions of semi-starvation...
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