Obesity driven by overconsumption of protein-mimicking carbs and fats

By: Cory Doctorow

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In an editorial for Nature, Stephen J. Simpson (academic director of University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre) and David Raubenheimer (Leonard P. Ullman chair in nutritional ecology and nutrition theme leader at the Charles Perkins Centre) argue that the obesity epidemic isn’t caused by sedentary lifestyles, but by overconsumption, because our appetite control systems are “fooled or subverted” by carbohydrates and fats that mimic proteins.