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norm. The idea that natural fat sources could be toxic to humans was a false and contrived notion with no basis in evolutionary or physiological science.

So the critical hormonal balance of insulin and glucagon depends on two things. One is the size of the meal you eat—excess calories stimulate secretion of insulin. The other is the ratio of protein to carbohydrate in each meal.

Seventy percent of your tendency to gain weight is determined by your parentage. Obesity is overwhelmingly inherited.

(A survey of 121 studies3 found that a variety of popular diets, no matter what theory they promoted or which celebrity promoted them, showed no effect on weight after a year.)

The low-carb diet’s popularity, rekindled in the 1990s, ignited into a full-scale inferno in 2002 when award-winning journalist Gary Taubes wrote a controversial lead article in the New York Times entitled “What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” He argued that dietary fat, long believed to cause atherosclerosis, was actually quite harmless to human

Maybe obesity rates have increased because food is more enjoyable than it has ever been, causing people to eat more. Rewards reinforce behavior, and the behavior of eating is rewarded by the palatability—the deliciousness—of the food. The increased palatability of food is not accidental. Societal changes have resulted in more meals being eaten away

According to the National Institutes of Health, 74 percent of American men and 33 percent of children are now overweight or obese. Our Bliss Point got hacked, and it’s killing us.