Dr Zoe Harcombe - The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it?

The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it?
Dr Zoe Harcombe

Summary: The Diabetes/Obesity epidemic begins in 1980 three years after the introduction of the low fat dietary advice by the United States Department of Agriculture. In this presentation I present information detailed in my book Obesity, of the factors driving the obesity epidemic in the United Kingdom and globally. Attempts to reverse the obesity epidemic require that the special role of hunger and addictive food choices must be considered. A return to eating of real foods and avoidance of addictive highly processed foods is central to any future attempts to reverse the current obesity epidemic. This requires interventions that go beyond what individual physicians and dieticians can achieve.

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Slide 5 – The Obesity Epidemic in the UK1
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content...
Slide 6 – The Obesity Epidemic in the US2
Slide 7 – What happened c. 19803-6
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonatha...
http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelin...
http://openheart.bmj.com/content/2/1/...
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInf...


Slide 8 – What happened c. 19806, 7
http://fit4godonline.com/science/
Slide 9 – Why did we change dietary advice – heart disease?8-11
http://www.ljemail.org/reference/Refe...
Slide 10 – Why did we change dietary advice – cholesterol logic?12,13
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15...
Slide 11 – Why did we change dietary advice the Seven Countries study?9, 14-17
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/73...

Slide 12 – Were we right to change – RCTs?18-23
http://www.researchgate.net/publicati...
http://www.ljemail.org/reference/Refe...
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/4...
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/4...
http://www.researchgate.net/publicati...

Slides 13-15 – Were we right to change – RCT evidence?24
http://openheart.bmj.com/content/2/1/...
Slides 16-19 – Were we right to change – cholesterol & CVD charts?[i]
http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2010/11/ch...
Slide 20 – What did we change to?[ii]
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/P...
Slide 21 – What are we now eating?
– 1,556 processed food calories25[iii]
http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2014/03/wh...
– Flour consumption[iv]
http://theobesityepidemic.org/TOE-Scr...
– Sugar consumption[v]
http://www.mah.se/CAPP/Globalsugar/Ri...
– Foods that have gone down and up26
http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/docs...
http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/c...

Slides 24-26 – USDA Database[vi]
http://nutritiondata.self.com/
Slide 28 – Obstacles to change27, 28
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/w...
Slide 29 – American Dietitians conflicts29
http://www.eatrightpro.org/resources/...
Slide 30 – British Nutrition Foundation30
http://www.nutrition.org.uk/attachmen...
Slide 33 – Association for Dietetics in SA31
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2...