Calories vs Carbohydrates: Clearing up Confusion ~ Gary Taubes MS

Ancestral Nutrition, from the archive

The science of obesity has been dogged for a century by a controversial question: is the condition an energy balance problem or a hormonal one? Do we accumulate excess fat merely because we consume more calories than we expend -- we eat too much and exercise too little -- or do we accumulate excess fat because the homeostatic mechanisms regulating fat metabolism and storage are out of whack.

Originally published May 26, 2013 on GreenMedTV.