How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health

 

The 3,500 calories in a pound of fat diet rule simplifies human biology. By presenting weight loss as a simple calories in, calories out equation, it flattens the dynamic system that is human metabolism, and fuels the myth that anyone can achieve weight loss, and if you can't, it's because you're doing something 'wrong.'

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