Author Blames Nutritionists’ Beliefs Regarding Calories For Rise In Obesity, Diabetes Rates.

op-ed that “to the sugar industry, the nutritionists’ dogmatic belief that obesity is a calorie overconsumption problem and a calorie is a calorie has been the gift that keeps on giving,” even as obesity and diabetes rates are burgeoning. Current scientific consensus “holds that obesity is caused ‘by a lack of energy balance,’ as the National Institutes of Health website explains – in other words, by our taking in more calories than we expend.” According to Taubes, as “long as nutrition and obesity authorities insist that this is true, then the sugar industry can rightfully defend its product on the basis that the calories from sugar are no better nor worse” than other calories. Taubes concluded, “We can’t have it both ways.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/opinion/sunday/big-sugars-secret-ally-nutritionists.html?_r=0