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What caused the obesity epidemic?
Author(s) -
Harcombe Zoë
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
trends in urology and men's health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2044-3749
pISSN - 2044-3730
DOI - 10.1002/tre.436
Subject(s) - obesity , incidence (geometry) , medicine , coronary heart disease , environmental health , saturated fat , physics , optics , cholesterol
In an attempt to reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease, dietary ‘experts’ advised us to avoid eating fat generally, saturated fat specifically; this led to an unavoidable increase in carbohydrate intake. Zoë Harcombe maintains that this change in dietary advice is the single greatest cause of the recent obesity epidemic.
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