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The conventional wisdom for fifty years has held that we get fat because we eat too much and move too little.
It’s a nice idea, but nonsense -- literally nonsensical.
What’s the alternative?
That obesity is a hormonal/enzymatic disorder, determined in large part by the nutrient content of the diet. A simple revision in the underlying assumptions about the cause of obesity leads to significant and far-reaching implications.
The history of these competing hypotheses and their clinical implications will be discussed.
Links to articles mentioned in this video:
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/
The Conventional Wisdom
http://www.who.int/en/
Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale
http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/
Double burden of obesity and malnutrition in a protracted emergency setting: a cross-sectional study of Western Sahara refugees.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001320
The question, circa 1973 -Rolf Richards, University of the West Indies
http://www.dairyaustralia.com.au/~/media/Documents/Health%20and%20Nutrition/Health-Professional/News-and-Events/Gary%20Taubes%20slides%20Nov%202010%20reduced.pdf
The question, circa 2005- Benjamin Caballero, Johns Hopkins University
http://www.dairyaustralia.com.au/~/media/Documents/Health%20and%20Nutrition/Health-Professional/News-and-Events/Gary%20Taubes%20slides%20Nov%202010%20reduced.pdf
Hilde Bruch, The Importance of Overweight, 1957
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1958-00761-000
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Importance_of_Overweight.html?id=lwnbAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/04/1957/hilde-bruch
AHA/ACSM 2007, Physical activity guidelines
https://books.google.co.za/books?id=cRcWq0aBu5wC&pg=PA17&dq=AHA/ACSM+2007,+Physical+activity+guidelines&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E1__VK-mBYHfUpD5g7AH&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=AHA%2FACS
M%202007%2C%20Physical%20activity%20guidelines&f=false
The Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/
Du Bois, Basal Metabolism in Health and Disease, 1936
http://www.amazon.com/Metabolism-Health-Disease-Eugene-Floyd/dp/B000WMGRYY
Frayn, K.N. 2010. Metabolic Regulation: A Human Perspective, 3rd edition
ftp://178.213.241.33/Soft/Docs/books/B_Biology/Frayn%20K.%20Metabolic%20regulation..%20A%20human%20perspective%20%283ed.,%20Wiley,%202010%29%28ISBN%201405183594%29%28O%29%28308s%29_B_.pdf
Dose-dependent effect of insulin on plasma free fatty acid turnover and oxidation in humans
Bonadonna et al. 1990. Dose dependent effect of insulin on plasma free fatty acid turnover and oxidation in humans. Am. J. Physiol. 259:E736-750.
http://ajpendo.physiology.org/content/259/5/E736