A number of recent articles by scientists involved in research on obesity make a pointed case that, in spite of many millions of dollars of funding, thousands of published studies, and a consensus about the urgency of the problem, existing research to answer the question “What causes obesity and how can we prevent it?” is woefully inadequate.
James Hébert and his co-authors write that, “Despite decades of research into the causes of the obesity pandemic, we seem to be no nearer to a solution now than when the rise in body weights was first chronicled decades ago.”
Obesity is a complex phenomenon involving the interplay of basic human drives, the environment, physiology, and genetics. Faced with this problem, there is a tendency for researchers to select one aspect of the puzzle, use methods that have severe limitations, and obtain results which are then often interpreted uncritically and offered as the basis for policy recommendations.
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