Scientists Claim That Overeating Is Not the Primary Cause of Obesity

&gt; Public health messaging exhorting people to eat less and exercise more has failed to stem rising rates of obesity and obesity-related diseases.<p>This isn&#x27;t because eating less and exercising more don&#x27;t make you lose weight (they do). It&#x27;s because people don&#x27;t follow the messaging.<p>Also, aren&#x27;t Twinkies the exact kind of food that this says makes you obese? How does the Twinkie diet work then?

If there is a field of science that needs a paradigm shift, it&#x27;s obesity research. I can&#x27;t think of any other aspect of health that has continually worsened, worldwide, for decades on end.

The considered ambiguity in this style of headline (&quot;Scientists claim&quot;) between &quot;all scientists claim&quot; and &quot;more than one scientist claims&quot; is terribly disinformative in itself, and clickbait because the article must be read to determine where to place this, if anywhere, on an infinite continuum of scientific progress.

When I eat vegs I just feel &quot;not hungry&quot; for long periods of time.<p>This, and eating breakfast made a change. If you don&#x27;t feel like eating breakfast is because you ate too late in the evening and still have food in the system.

Carbs are very cheap to produce, cheap to transport, have a long shelf-life and are hunger inducing.<p>Our dietary guidelines for the last few decades have been largely designed to serve the interests of the food industry and agriculture.

This is not new, is it? There have been lots of claims over the last few decades that during the 1960s, the sugar industry pushed the idea that eating fat was what made people fat, rather than eating sugar-like carbohydrates.<p>Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t know that the claim that sugar (and similar carbohydrates) are what causes weight gain is true, I&#x27;m just saying that this argument has been around for a long time.

Carbohydrates cause obesity. Wasn&#x27;t until the change in the food pyramid for more bread&#x2F;pasta&#x2F;rice&#x2F;etc. that obesity started being a problem.