What is your evidence that fast food has caused the obesity crisis? 

As I point out in Part I, obesity only began to skyrocket somewhere around 1980...and as I point out at the beginning of my 2013 AHS presentation, 1980 doesn't coincide with any sort of parallel increase in fast food consumption.  (Quite the opposite, in fact.)

"The lipid hypothesis is accepted by the major health organizations all over the world who have reviewed the literature compiled over the last 100 years."

Once we accepted it, and it became official nutrition policy, in the late 1970s, obesity skyrocketed -- as I point out in Part I.  I believe that is known as "epic failure".

Also, if you go back before the 1960s, it's considered a loaf of baloney, e.g. "The great progess in dietary control of obesity was the recognition that meat was not fat producing; but that it was bread and sweets which lead to obesity." Here's a timeline of the relevant research. 

Result: yes, the health of the nation would absolutely be improved by telling people to eat more bacon, eggs, and butter.  However, red meat is better for your health than industrially-produced bacon, and I both prefer it and recommend it to my readers.  

Meanwhile, I'm sorry you're still bamboozled by the dry-whole-grain-toast propaganda: you'll enjoy life much more, and probably live longer, by ditching all that unpleasant junk and enjoying some real food. 

JS

I'm glad that I can contribute to the education (and perhaps even the health) of the young!  It's an honor to be cited by educators like yourself as a reliable source of information.

JS

Mike

Point taken.  I wish your friend the best recovery possible.

JS

It is a terrible loss, however, and all reasonable steps should be taken to prevent it. Eating yourself into a lack of mobility is however beyond stupid.

We all know that the way to fatten any animal as quickly as possible is to feed it grains. Did you know that the way foie gras ("fatty liver") is made is by force-feeding corn to geese? There is a lesson here for us all.

As far as "nutritionists", I don't think there is any field more full of total baloney.  What passes for nutritional "knowledge" contradicts basic biology and chemistry. We might not know all the answers -- but when someone says that "beer can't make you fat because there's no fat in it", we know right away that this person doesn't understand the first thing about how food is digested, absorbed, metabolized, and stored.

JS

Yup, order a latte with low-fat, non-fat, or soy milk, (another can-o-worms) add a lot of sugary syrup to make it taste somewhat less than crappy, then have a gigantic low-fat chocolate chip muffin with it, and call it lunch. Then wonder why you keep gaining weight and having health problems. 😛

And the thing that REALLY amazes me is that many nutritionists don't have a clue as to how and why the body makes fat. I recently heard one say that beer can't make you fat, because there is no fat in it. According to her, what makes beer drinkers fat is the poor choices of food they make while drinking, like fried foods. Idiocy abounds. (Aside from the breading, of course, fried foods are fine, as long as they are fried in real lard. And in many cases, the breading is not that big of a deal.)

If even nutritionists don't understand the very basics, most people are screwed, unless they take it upon themselves to learn the truth. Ingesting fat does not make you fat, people. If you think it does, you need to study basic biology. As you may know, pigs are considered to be the omnivores with the digestive system that is the closest to ours. Ask a pig farmer what he feeds his pigs to fatten them up. I'll give you a hint, it is not fat.