Leading Medical Textbook Harrison's Ignores Hormonal Mechanisms of Obesity
Gary Taubes · #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us · Nov 30, 2017 · at 45:58
Investigative science journalist Gary Taubes argues that mainstream medical literature improperly reduces obesity to behavioral overeating rather than hormonal dysregulation.
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“The medical textbook, the most seminal textbook, and the Harrison's Principles of Medicine, I think it's called, and the chapter on obesity is written by the, you know, a very, very smart researcher named Jeff Flyer, who just, until recently, was dean of Harvard Medical School, and his wife, who's equally smart and talented Terry Marito's flyer, and they do research together, and if you actually look for what it is that causes obesity, they just, in that chapter, though, the assumption is it's the overconsumption of calories. It's eating too much. It's a behavioral problem, and there's no discussion of what's been a very well-worked-out science on the sort of hormonal, regulatory you know, system that controls both the use of fatty acids for fuel and the storage of fat in the fat cells”
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