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“It is better to know nothing,” wrote Claude Bernard in An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, “than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.”

— Gary Taubes Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

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Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.

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One of the most reproducible findings in obesity research, as I’ve said, is that fat people, on average, eat no more than lean people.

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The documented failure of semi-starvation diets for the obese dates back at least half a century.

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Children do not grow because they eat voraciously; rather, they eat voraciously because they are growing.

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Neither eating less nor exercising more will lead to long-term weight loss, as the body naturally compensates.

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