A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic
LESSWRONG 12 This is a summary of a paper that I found open in a browser tab; I dont recall where I came across it. I think its a nice paper, but its also 63 pages long and seemed worth a synopsis for those who wouldnt otherwise tackle it. Scott concluded in For, then Against, High-saturated-fat diets that the obesity crisis seemed to imply one of three answers: That weight less is really hard and people in previous centuries had really hard lives and thats why there was so little obesity back ...
Source: lesswrong.com