Let’s pretend for a minute that my job is to investigate plane crashes and after a crash I go and investigate. You ask what caused the crash and I say it was gravity. The plane was up in the air and gravity pulled it to the ground and it crashed. Did I lie? Was I helpful?
The answer is I didn’t lie but I wasn’t helpful. If gravity was the cause, why don’t all planes crash because they are all affected by gravity.
The reason why this example is silly is because, while I may have answered the ultimate cause of the crash what you are really looking for is the proximate cause. You don’t want to know about gravity, you want to know if it was pilot error or a screw came loose or if Boeing made it.
This is exactly how I feel when someone blames obesity on eating too many calories and not moving enough. It’s obvious that too many calories cause obesity but it’s like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Eating too many calories definitely causes obesity but why are we eating so many calories?
Maybe it’s the processed food that has been engineered to be addictive. Maybe it’s the carbs that constantly keep insulin levels high. Maybe it’s the seed oils where you see the rise in obesity almost perfectly matching the rise in seed oil consumption. I don’t know the answer but when thing I’m entire confident of is this.
If you stop eating sugar, grains, and seed oils, you also stop eating most processed food and when you do that, you can control your appetite enough to lower your calories. If you try to reduce calories through dieting, you are miserable and will almost always regain any weight you managed to lose.
