We KNOW what makes us fat

"The great progress in dietary control of obesity," wrote Hilde Bruch, considered the foremost authority on childhood obesity, in 1957, "was the recognition that meat . . . was not fat producing; but that it was the innocent foodstuffs, such as bread and sweets, which lead to obesity."

"In Great Britain obesity is probably more common among poor women than among the rich," Sir Stanley Davidson and Reginald Passmore wrote in the early 1960s in their classic textbook Human Nutrition and Dietetics, "perhaps because foods rich in fat and protein, which satisfy appetite more readily than carbohydrates, are more expensive than the starchy foods which provide the bulk of cheap meals."

Obesity, around the world is a disease of poverty. Carbohydrates are the cheapest food in market societies. Most of us rely on markets to supply our food, and it's not unusual for people to seek the cheapest possible way to feed their family.

In contrast where there is an abundance of land, compared with the population, the cheapest food is self caught. Hunting, fishing and gathering food from the forest allows people to eat well without relying on the market.

Diet for Obesity

Source of the Document

“The Practice of Endocrinology,” 1951
by Raymond Greene

This was a text book written at the Stanford Medical School.

This was the Atkins Diet, 20 years before Atkins.

Why did we lose this knowledge?

Ancel Keys?
George McGovern?