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167. Gary Taubes — The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Obesity Epidemic

In 19 30, professor lewis snowberg decides that a obesity is caused by eating too much. He says he's mentally proved at it based on his experiments on what looks to be about five to seven human subjects. But the people in chicago, i name grandson, who is tha leading nera anatomist of the era, dies of a heart attack three months after writing this paper. By the sixties, psychologists and psychiatrists are trying to explain why people eat too much fat. People eat too much, and come up behavior or tricks to get em to stop. This is how science hangs on such crazy history.

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