Defeating The Global Obesity Epidemic

What can Brown do for you?

Not much, except for state the obvious. And even get part of that wrong.

"According to Rena Wing, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and director of the Weight Control & Diabetes Research Center at The Miriam Hospital, people who are most successful in preventing weight gain, and dieters who lose weight and keep the pounds off, have made major changes in their diet and exercise routines...

Hill argues that small daily changes, say using the stairs, are enough to prevent incremental weight gain that can lead to obesity. Wing, however, made the case that much larger life-style changes - say exercising 60 to 90 minutes a day - are needed to prevent weight regain."

Hill is a mountain of crap.

"Exercise," i.e., Calories out, besides being time-consuming and inefficient, is not prevention. It is catch-up.

It is the pound of cure for overeating.

Don't overeat and you don't need to "exercise" for weight control.

And these morons think that people who are not disciplined enough to cut back a few Calories per day are disciplined enough for "exercising 60 to 90 minutes a day."

The overwhelmingly more important factor in weight control is Calories in.

And minor changes will work.

"'There's no way around it,' Wing said. 'If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you need to really change your lifestyle, particularly if you're overweight or have a family history of obesity. The obesity epidemic won't go away simply because people switch from whole to skim milk. They need to substantially cut their calories and boost their physical activity to get to a healthy weight - and keep minding the scale once they do.'"

Clearly there is a way around this insipid advice.

Wing's ideas will never take flight.