If you go back to 1890, only 1 in 17 middle-aged white men had obesity.... today it's pretty much 50/50 for middle-aged white men whether they're obese

The combination of fat and carbohydrate is what really drives us to over-consume more than anything else.

Essentially what insulin does - it's a traffic cop that tells your body to burn the fuel that you just ate.

...If you eat human junk food, you're probably going to get fat

How the brain works to regulate fat storage

I think that we need to change the food environment and we need to change the physical activity environment of this country - those are the fundamental drivers of this health crisis that we're finding ourselves in.

..Those are the states - Louisiana to like North Carolina - those are the fattest states in the country.

...time is the commodity that I am seeking more of and that I'm assuming many of you are seeking more of as well

What I object to is the idea that it's all about carbohydrates, and calories and fat and exercise don't matter.

Most everything they said in Forks Over Knives is in line with A - the scientific facts of the case and B - the general recommendations for the public on nutrition

Fat calories are by far the easiest to store

...Fat calories are always the easiest thing to store because it doesn't require any work...

...palm oil is a huge contributor to the saturated fat burden. It's found in almost 50 percent of all grocery store products.

...any study is to me less valid than well examined epidemiological evidence.

My point of view is that Toubes makes a lot of conceptual errors in his work and then those conceptual errors are essentially adopted whoel hog.

Epidemiological studies are not perfect, but they give us as good a tool and as good a handle on what people eat as we possibly can get.

If you went on any diet of any type and you lost weight, you lost weight because you breathe out some carbon dioxide and peed out some water and you burn some calories. That's how you lost the weight. There's no magic there.

...there's good evidence that low-carbohydrate diets do cause birth defects.

"Non-starchy vegetables are massively established to have huge health benefits...

Don't eat refined sugar as a staple source of calories.