We now understand the many causes of the obesity crisis better than ever. Does that bring hope to the overweight or despair that we'll all succumb?

0:00 Dude looks like a lady
0:49 Kevin Hall paper
1:59 BMI is heritable
3:11 NIH facilities
5:02 The test diets
6:32 NOVA ranking system for foods
9:16 Unlimited food
9:58 The body's setpoint
10:52 The Protein leverage hypothesis
14:10 It's the processing
17:18 Calorie density
18:08 New model of palatability
21:58 BMI is heritable
24:35 Is it sugar?

VIDEOS REFERENCED:

Tera Fazzino, a classification system for palatability of ultra processed food
   • Tera Fazzino, PhD presents for VCBH L...  

Carlos Monteiro on the Dangers of Ultra-processed Foods
   • Carlos Monteiro on the Dangers of Ult...  

Evil tricks the food companies play: why we can't lose weight and get healthy.
   • The Shocking Truth About Your Daily Diet  

Food, Energy, and Obesity - Kevin Hall, NIH Physicist
   • Food, Energy, and Obesity - Kevin Hal...  

PAPERS CITED:

Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake, by Kevin Hall
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/...

Hyper-Palatable Foods: Development of a Quantitative
Definition and Application to the US Food System
Database, by Tera Fazzino
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstre...

ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS: NOVA CLASSIFICATION
https://regulatory.mxns.com/en/ultra-...

Ad libitum meal energy intake is positively influenced by energy density, eating rate and hyper-palatable food across four dietary patterns, by Tera Fazzino and Kevin Hall
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4301...

The potential role of protein leverage in the US obesity epidemic
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Protein status elicits compensatory changes in food intake and food preferences
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article...

Obesity: the protein leverage hypothesis by S J Simpson, D Raubenheimer
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15836...

The Human Energy Crisis: Kevin Hall applies a physicist’s view of energy to the human body.
https://irp.nih.gov/our-research/rese...

Effect of a plant-based, low-fat diet versus an animal-based, ketogenic diet on ad libitum energy intake, by Kevin Hall
https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/s41591-020...

What I learned about weight loss from spending a day inside a metabolic chamber: One of science’s best tools for understanding obesity is debunking myths about metabolism.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17486110...

BOOKS REFERENCED

The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor, by Mark Schatzker
https://www.amazon.com/The-Dorito-Eff...

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, by Michael Moss
https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat...

The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat, by Stephan Guyenet
https://www.amazon.com/The-Hungry-Bra...

Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent--and Reverse--It, by Richard Johnson
https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Wants-F...

Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, by Robert Lustig
https://www.amazon.com/Metabolical-Pr...

The Nature of Nutrition: A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity by Stephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer
https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Nutriti...