The Medical Freedom Channel

“Obesity isn’t all about eating and inactivity, says an international group of researchers. Just about everywhere you look, doctors are blaming America’s obesity epidemic on two things: too much food — especially widely marketed fast food and junk food — and too little exercise, with too much time in front of the TV. But we’re paying too much attention to the ‘big two,’ argue David B. Allison, PhD, director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham clinical nutrition research center, and his colleagues. … To stimulate debate, Allison and colleagues suggest 10 other possible causes of obesity. Their article appears in this week’s online edition of the International Journal of Obesity. It’s well accepted that reduced physical activity and fast food are linked to obesity. But the evidence that these are the main causes of obesity is ‘largely circumstantial,’ Allison and colleagues say.” [editor’s note: Yesterday’s MFC featured a sort of “rebuttal” to these contentions. - SAT] (06/29/06)