Obesity - Is It Your Fault?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’ve always been told to get off the couch and stop eating junk food if you want to lose weight - but is the obesity epidemic that simple? (Spoiler alert: it’s not.) We speak to geneticist Dr Giles Yeo, exercise physiology researcher Dr Lara Dugas, gastroenterologist Dr Jessica Allegretti, nutrition researcher Dr Pablo Monsivais and Italian radio maker Jonathan Zenti, Check out Jonathan’s podcast MEAT here. Check out the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/36jtLCo Selected reading: The 2007 study announcing the FTO gene and its link to obesityThe cute cookie studyThe paper that says ““Let us bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity”The curious case of the poo transplantFood deserts in DetroitOn fast food advertising Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet Media.
0:04.9	This is the show that pips facts against fat.
0:08.0	On today's show, Science Versus Obesity.
0:13.9	What exactly is making us fat?
0:21.9	For the most part, we've been taught that if you're fat, it's your fault.
0:26.0	Get off your bum and go for a run.
0:28.0	Stop eating so many carbs.
0:30.4	That's what Jonathan Zenti has always heard.
0:33.0	The wrong things I do is that I eat like huge balls of pasta, I eat pizza and I eat bread
0:39.2	that are my Achilles' heels.
0:41.4	Of course Jonathan loves those things.
0:43.7	They're great.
0:44.7	Plus, he's Italian.
0:47.0	Jonathan is a radio producer and he's been overweight for a while now and recently documented
0:52.6	his weight struggle.
0:54.4	He talked to our reporter Heather Rogers about it and Jonathan said that his mum is always
0:59.1	trying to pressure him to eat better.
1:02.1	She took me to a fish restaurant because she knows I don't like fish very much.
1:07.4	She took you there so you wouldn't eat very much.
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:11.0	What did you order?
1:13.4	I think fried something.
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