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GARY TAUBES: The Inanity Of Overeating. ?First, obese people tend to be weight stable for long per?

By Glenn Reynolds

GARY TAUBES: The Inanity Of Overeating. “First, obese people tend to be weight stable for long periods of their life, just like lean people. So when they?re weight stable, the obese and overweight are obviously in energy balance. They?re not overeating during these periods of stable weight. They?re eating to match their expenditure, doing exactly what the lean do (and get copious credit for). So one obvious question is why the overweight and obese are only in energy balance when they?re carrying 10, 20, 30 or maybe 100 pounds of excess fat, and lean people are in energy balance without the excess? What?s the culprit for that? Because the problem isn?t that the obese overeat when they?re obese, it?s that they overeat when they?re lean and they continue to overeat until they become obese.”

His book, Why We Get Fat, And What To Do About It, is now out.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 01, 2011 (boomark / email).