Treat obesity as physiology, not physics : Nature News & Comment

“It is better to know nothing,” wrote French physiologist Claude Bernard in An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865), “than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek.” 
Is the obesity epidemic caused at least in part by the research community's failure to understand the nature of the disease, and by the food industry's exploitation of that failure ?.

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