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Prognosis: Misconception

Losing It: A Weight-Loss Mecca’s Secrets

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1838 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We all think we know the basics of weight loss. It is all about consuming fewer calories than you burn. Eat less, move more. Calories in, calories out. But there’s much more to it than these simple equations, as a trip to the enormous Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana - a hub of such research - shows. In this episode, we break down the science of why it’s so hard to lose weight, and look at what the kinds of stories heralded as a weight-loss success really look like in practice. 

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One of the first things I notice when I walk into Pennington Biomedical Research Center is a giant stained glass window.

0:40.3

It's filled with images of healthy living,

0:43.3

cast in rainbow colors.

0:45.3

You see there are two wheels here,

0:48.3

and there is a cyclist on the top,

0:51.3

and then there is all kinds of fruits and vegetable. I mean, it's quite a nice

0:56.6

piece of art. The stained glass window towers above a Pennington entryway. Brightly colored

1:04.1

shards of glass depict asparagus, bananas, peas, and a pineapple. The outline of a runner cuts through the background, painted in shades of orange and purple.

1:16.7

And then there is a DNA, DNA on the right.

1:20.9

There are blue and pink fish at the bottom, a cantaloupe on the side.

1:27.4

The longer I stare, the more symbols of healthy living

1:31.7

reveal themselves. But it's all about what we do. I mean, you know, health, genetics, and biology,

1:39.4

and you have all the elements of nutrition, you have the exercise, you have the DNA.

1:46.8

The whole thing makes the place feel like a temple to nutrition.

1:51.4

Because it kind of is.

1:53.6

Pennington is a sprawling research center working to study obesity.

1:59.6

Our tour guide today is Eric Ravison, a prominent scientist in the space who is Associate

2:06.1

Executive Director for Clinical Science at Pennington.

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