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 don't recall where I came across it. I think it's a nice paper, but it's also 63 pages long and seemed worth a synopsis for those who wouldn't 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 that's why there was so little obesity back then. That it's “being caused by plastics or antibiotics affecting the microbiome or somethin...
Source: lesswrong.com