Every body gets fat differently. The reasons vary by individual.
They range from genetics to social behaviors and environmental
phenomena to the effects of disease and medical treatments for
them. There’s a recipe for obesity in each of us – and at least
one-third of Americans have found it. Still, when it comes to
weight gain and loss, it comes down to two basic bodies of
thought. The first says a calorie is just a calorie. It doesn’t
matter if it comes in the form of a strawberry or a strawberry
cheesecake. The only things that count in the so-called “energy
balance model” are calories consumed and energy expended. This
is the way most people think about food and, by extrapolation,
the nation’s ever-widening obesity crisis. We simply eat too
much. It’s a conventional point of view long-held and buttressed
by decades of research. Click the image to enlarge But within
limits, the energy balance system makes sense, said Dr. George
Bray, chief of the division of clinical obesity and metabolism
at the Pennington