Better Health Workshop

Competition for Power in Europe

German and Austrian science was heavily supported by the government.

This was good science (for it's time) and continued until WWII.

Obesity was never a problem in Europe, Ebstein promoted the Banting diet.

That idea was picked up by Dr William Osler in the USA.

Wilhelm Ebstein (1836 - 1912)

After WWII anything German was discredited and much of medical science went backward 50 years.

So after WWII cause of obesity became a difficult complex problem that isn't understood.

Back Wiliam Osler – John Hopkins Medical School