Obesity is now the No. 1 preventable cause of death in America. The CDC estimates that 10% of healthcare costs — about $150 billion annually — are tied to the obesity epidemic. And yet the kinds of studies that speak directly to the question of not just how we lose weight but perhaps why we gain it, and what we may be doing wrong as individuals and as a nation, are mishandled so badly that they border on scientific ineptitude.
Until the press, funding agencies and researchers start asking the obvious questions, we will continually find ourselves in the same predicament.
