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introduction

Thinking seriously about the treatment of obesity, I realized there

was one singularly important question to understand: What causes

weight gain? That is, what is the root cause of weight gain and obesity?

The reason we never think about this crucial question is that we think

we already know the answer. We think that eating too many calories

causes obesity. If this were true, then the solution to weight loss would

be simple: Eat fewer calories.

Figure 2: A More Effective Paradigm of Medical Treatment

But we’ve done that already. Ad nauseam. For the last forty years, the

only weight-loss advice has been to cut your calories and exercise more.

This is the highly ineffective strategy called Eat Less, Move More. We

have calorie counts on every food label. We have calorie-counting books.

We have calorie-counting apps. We have calorie counters on our exercise

machines. We’ve done everything humanly possible to count calories so

that we could cut them. Has it worked? Have those pounds melted like a

snowman in July? No. It sure sounds like it should work. But the empir-

ical evidence, plain as a mole on the tip of your nose, is that it does not

work.

From a human physiology standpoint, the entire calorie story col-

lapses like a house of cards when you look closely at it. The body does

not respond to “calories.” There are no calorie receptors on cell surfaces.

The body has no ability to know how many calories you are eating or

Obesity

Medical

Treatment

Metabolic Syndrome

Type 2 Diabetes

Heart Attacks

Stroke

Cancer

Kidney Disease

Blindness

Amputation

Nerve Damage