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The evidence supporting the three scientific models of obesity that blame dietary macronutrients is mixed and sometimes false.
Practitioners should be cautious about attributing obesity to specific macronutrients without considering the mixed evidence.
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Indeed, three scientific models of obesity have implicated each macronutrient as being the prime culprit, but the evidence supporting these models is, at best, mixed and, at worst, demonstrably false.
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The abstract reviews multiple scientific models and their evidence.
Source
Energy Balance and Regulation of Body Weight
Kevin D. Hall et al. · 2017
DOI 10.1201/9781315119410-3
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