Cory:
This long, in-depth article from the NYT looks at the alternative hypothesis of weight-gain and weight-loss. Americans eat "better" (i.e., lower-fat) than they have since the 50s, they exercise as much as they have since the workout boom of the 70s, and they are fatter than ever. A long-discredited hypothesis to explain this holds that substituting carbs and sugar for fat is a bad trade-off. For twenty years, we've been consuming "healthy," fat-free, sugar-rich foods as a way to get skinny, with dismal results.
I'm not a dietician, but after reading this article, I thought back to all the people I know who've been successful at losing weight in the past five or six years, and all the people I know who haven't been. Universally, the crazy guys who ordered triple-cheeseburgers but eschewed the buns are the ones who can see their toes today, while the fat-free miseries that the rest of us endured have come to nowt but extra rolls.
The consensus is building.
Posted by wasylik at July 7, 2002 11:29 AM | TrackBack