Bad Science and Diet Lies Keep Feeding Obesity: Gary Taubes with Dave Asprey – #778

• What I’m doing in this book, I think of this as a grassroots movement. – 2:05
• The bad science has not gone away or gotten better and so we have to keep getting this message out there – 3:22
• We’re storing fat rather than burning it for fuel. That’s a fuel partitioning problem.  – 5:11
• If somebody is obese, then they’re going to tell me they love potatoes, they love bread, they loved pasta, they love rice. These are the foods they can’t live without. These are the foods we fatten animals with  – 8:01
• The low-fat diet that was introduced in the 1960s. It was supposed to be a way to prevent heart disease and then became a obesity diet. It had never been tested. It had never been tested for obesity.  – 9:18
• This is it anytime you come upon contrary data, you just assume that this is … You write it off as paradox. You never have to consider that your hypothesis is wrong.  – 11:57
• What I talk about in the book the conversion experience. – 16:17
• We were asking a scientific question and we we’re using a ketogenic diet to ask that scientific question. – 20:59
• VMH lesioned animals and then the Ob/Ob mice that led to the discovery of leptin, to every other animal model of obesity. – 24:58
• What came out of what works is a low-carb diet, the opposite of what they’re being told to eat by their physicians. – 30:18
• He gets on diabetes.co.uk. He signs up and he’s the first physician or healthcare professional to ever sign up for it even though they now have like a hundred thousand members. – 32:23
• What we need to understand is that those of us who fatten easily we can’t eat what lean people eat because if we do, we’ll be fat, hungry, tired, grouchy. – 35:21
• Obesity is a hormonal disorder. Hormonal dysregulation of fat accumulation and the link to diet is through insulin. – 36:08
• If they can somehow eat 500 calories less every day than they used to be, they’ll lose a pound a week and they won’t. It doesn’t work like that. It’s not about math. It’s about knowing the endocrinology of obesity, the effect of hormones on fat storage, and metabolism.  – 38:57
• That ultimately wasn’t going to work because it wasn’t fixing the problem. The problem wasn’t too much food or too much fat. It was, in effect, any carbohydrates for her. – 42:25
• Every doctor I know who’s made a difference has been attacked by Quackwatch  – 44:01

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