Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

Almost everything about this article is wrong, and it's way too damn long.

> . The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets.

Atkins (and other low carb diets like keto) honestly take people back to the diet we had in the 1950s/60s. Lower carbohydrates.

The fact is we are fatter, collectively as a human race. There has to be a cause for that; a cause that can be reverse. We weren't always like this; and study after study is showing us the "low fat" diet has been a disaster.

We need waaaay less sugar and starches in our diets. And it's so impossible because it's difficult to find anything on the shelves of a grocery store that aren't loaded with them.

The industry was so afraid of the Adkins diet in the early 2000s they paid Harpers to publish a total 'fake news' article after he died; blaming the death on his diet. This was later redacted, but it was too little too late. Even today, people still believe he died of a heart condition.

The industries need people to keep consuming sugar to keep their bottom lines growing. Imagine if Adkins had taken off and today, every fast food place had a no-bread, low-carb option? My hypothesis is that we'd see obesity rates drop across the US and eventually the world.

This article was about a hundred times longer than it needed to be. Here's the thing. Hormones don't magically create voodoo energy out of thin air, otherwise all our bodies would be free energy machines hooked up to a central grid.

A calorie is a calorie. If you're overweight, consume fewer calories. If you're trying to gain weight, consume more calories. All of this talk about hormones and not being able to cook reeks of laziness and a lack of willpower.

Change your eating habits. There's no need for 3 meals a day with a number of snacks. It doesn't have to be an extreme zero-carb or pure carnivore thing. Just consume balanced macros and eat at a calorie deficit and I guarantee you'll lose weight.