Cardiff Metropolitan University - Public & Professorial Lecture Series
Zoë Harcombe
"The Obesity Epidemic. What caused it? How can we stop it?"
February 2012.
Overview:
Since Australopithecus Lucy first walked upright , the human race evolved for 3.5 million years without an obesity problem. Then, in the last quarter of the last century, we managed to create an obesity epidemic.
Author and obesity researcher, Zoë Harcombe, presents the evidence for a smoking gun - the cause of this obesity epidemic. The journey will take us through misapplications of thermodynamics, incorrect assumptions about calories, macro nutrient confusion and conflicts of interest.
There is a way to reverse the obesity epidemic, but first we need to question everything that we think we know about dieting.
Zoe's PowerPoint Presentation from her lecture on Tuesday 7th February is now availalble below. The references on the bottom left hand corner of each slide are numbered. The numbers correspond to 400 references posted here (http://www.theobesityepidemic.org/references/) with links to original articles and pages wherever possible for your convenience.
Powerpoint:
http://www3.cardiffmet.ac.uk/English/Events/Documents/Cardiff_Metropolitan_University_Lecture_2012.pdf