What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and...

It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we’re virtuous and we get fat because we’re not, but the evidence simply says otherwise. Virtue has little more to with our weight than...

Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories,...

…Why is it, that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, that the only disorder you will ever diagnosis with a physics book – is obesity? This is biology folks,...

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.