Why We Get Fat

Let’s start with the first nutritional myth that’s caused so many problems: that a low-fat diet is healthy and good for weight loss. When a low-fat diet was first proposed in the 1950s, it was under the misguided belief that it would reduce heart attacks. Since the 1970s, following a low-fat diet has also been the primary advice for weight loss and

Make food less ubiquitous in your own world. For most of history, human societies have tempered against boom and bust with ritual feast and long periods of frugality. But recently, agriculture has led to an increase in the capacity to hold food in reserve, to save for a rainy day—or, more likely, to save for an extended drought, or a harvest failur

Why We Get Fat - Gary Taubes

Diets based on choice restriction and calorie limits usually fail. People on restrictive diets get tired of feeling hungry and deprived. They go off their diets, put the weight back on (primarily as increased body fat), and then feel bad about themselves for not having enough will power, discipline, or motivation. Weight loss has little to do with