Diet Or Exercise? New Study Finds Sugar Is Important In Obesity, UK

Another dumb study, but I kinda like this one since it is a reminder of something valuable.

Here is the grossly stupid part:

"Scientists at the Medical Research Council have found that eating more sugar is associated with obesity...This is important in establishing the cause of the UK's epidemic of obesity: lack of exercise or over-eating."

The "cause of the UK's epidemic of obesity" is more Calories in than out. Nothing else.

How you got there makes no difference. Period.

Here is the okay part:

"They found that obese people underestimated the amount of sugar they consumed, while overestimating the amount of vitamin C they took in each day...

Professor Bingham, from the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit and EPIC study continued: "These results show what many have suspected for some time: obese people are not able to tell us what they actually eat. If we are to tackle the scourge of obesity, both exercise and diet need to be taken into account."

I think it is useful to reiterate that fat people are basically liars when it comes to reporting how many Calories they eat and how few they burn.

The fat folk who eat "only a salad with little or no dressing all day" and the moron researchers who fall for that need to be exposed occasionally.

This is one such occasion.

You're fat because you eat too much. No other reason.

And on top of that, you lie about it.