Is Obesity Caused by Positive Energy Balance?

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The idea is obecity, right? Is caused by positive energy balance. That's back to the newton's laws of obesity science. And why are why are people obese? Cause they eat too much. Why do they eat too much? Well, because they're obese. It doesn't explain anything we this is. You won't find a text book that doesn't say obesity is caused bypositive energy balance. But the way it perverts the research to day, like i said, is obesity research, people aren't actually studying fat accumulation in fat cells - which is the problem.

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