Food fight! Food fight!

Diet wars turn family feud
http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/g...t_m.php?page=1

"Given what has transpired since, the backlash against 'What if It’s
All Been a Big Fat Lie' is beginning to take on the look of a sad,
strange hysteria whose time has mercifully passed. Taubes spent five
years producing an exhaustively footnoted, 600-page book called Good
Calories, Bad Calories, which was published in 2007. It landed
quietly, but has since come to command a kind of totemic status among
paleo dieters and pragmatic health professionals, and is widely read
in the bariatric, metabolic and diabetes research community..."

"Poor Taubes. No one warned him that 600 pages of evidence were never
going to be enough. The theory that weight gain boils down
'calories-in, calories-out' is the last man standing in the diet wars.
The principle anchors the comforting American belief that personal
responsibility explains all of our ills. It validates all that wasted
time on the treadmill that people like Kolata and others endorse. It
keeps us watching shows like The Biggest Loser. It leaves the door
open to low-calorie, high-carbohydrate food products that make the
economy hum, are portable, do not require we learn to cook, make
children stop crying, and taste good. Any efforts at reporting science
to the contrary will always have a rough road."

We're winning the war, but the fight is far from over. Too many vested
interests!

--
Dogman

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty
about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything" - Richard Feynman