The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific?

An anonymous reader writes "An award-winning science author, Gary Taubes, has written a book that pans the medical community's treatment of the obesity epidemic. What is interesting is that it looks like the medical community is behaving in a very unscientific manner. Taubes points out that the current medical orthodoxy — that consuming fat makes you fat and exercise makes you thin — has no basis in research. In fact, all the available research points in quite another, and more traditional, direction. Here's the (excellent) podcast of an interview with Taubes on CBC's 'Quirks and Quarks.' So, has medicine become a non-science? Is it mostly a non-science? Somewhat?"

Comments

RUN YOU FAT BASTARDS

[Anonymous Coward]

Git on your bikes and ride!

Thanks for the best advise

[hackingbear]

Now let's start eating!!!!

Re:Ugh...

[garbletext]

potatoe

You had me convinced until you proved that you're dumber than Dan Quayle.

Re:Ugh...

[pretygrrl]

hard to lose fat? sounds like a fat person!! no one was fat in a german concentration camp. now, isn't that something.
quit eating, stop being fat. easy!