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Despite myriad attempts, researchers were unable to establish that patients with atherosclerosis had significantly more cholesterol in their bloodstream than those who didn’t.

— 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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