Why Nutrition Is So Confusing and the 'Science Hoax'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="_5pcd img" height="208" src="https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQCyumWeKx-8Ampz&w=398&h=208&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2014%2F02%2F09%2Fsunday-review%2F09NUTRITION%2F09NUTRITION-videoSixteenByNine1050.jpg&cfs=1" width="400" /></div>Photo Credit:Launch media viewer<br />Sophia Martineck<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'NEARLY six weeks into the 2014 diet season, it’s a good bet that many of us who made New Year’s resolutions to lose weight have already peaked. If clinical trials are any indication, we’ve lost much of the weight we can expect to lose. In a year or two we’ll be back within half a dozen pounds of where we are today.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The question is why. Is this a failure of willpower or of technique? Was our chosen dietary intervention — whether from the latest best-selling diet book or merely a concerted attempt to eat less and exercise more — doomed to failure? Considering that obesity and its related diseases — most notably, Type 2 diabetes — now cost the health care system more than $1 billion per day, it’s not hyperbolic to suggest that the health of the nation may depend on which is the correct answer.' </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/why-nutrition-is-so-confusing.html?ref=opinion">more... </a></span>

Why Nutrition Is So Confusing and the 'Science Hoax'

Photo Credit:Launch media viewer Sophia Martineck 'NEARLY six weeks into the 2014 diet season, it’s a good bet that many of us who made ...

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