![]() ![]() Something else is going on.Ĭonsider the following diets: Atkins (all fat and no carbohydrates) traditional Japanese (all carbohydrates and little fat) and Ornish (even less fat and carbohydrates with lots of fiber). Conversely, up to 40% of normal-weight people have chronic metabolic disease. If one’s weight really is a matter of personal responsibility, how can we explain toddler obesity? Indeed, the US has an obesity epidemic in six-month-olds. These two nutritional maxims give credence to the food industry’s self-serving corollaries: If a calorie is a calorie, then any food can be part of a balanced diet and, if we are what we eat, then everyone chooses what they eat. Previously, one could have argued that these were affluent countries’ diseases, but the United Nations announced last year that chronic metabolic disease (including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and dementia) is a bigger threat to the developing world than is infectious disease, including HIV. ![]() The United States currently spends $147 billion on obesity-related health care annually. ![]()
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