Dr. David Allison
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Mar
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give you their very strong and convicted opinion about some diet or some cause of obesity or what have you.
Do you think there's danger in that?
Oh, sure.
I think it misleads people tremendously.
It wastes huge amounts of time, wastes huge amounts of resources.
Every time you're telling somebody to do something that's inert, let's forget even that it's harmful, maybe harmful, it's just inert.
You're distracting them from potentially doing the thing that might be helpful.
Every time you say to a school superintendent, a mayor, a governor, et cetera, invest in this,
You're saying don't invest in that.
Of course that hurts if we're basing those judgments on erroneous information.
You know, it's interesting.
I started noticing this as an undergraduate, but what I saw as misaligned has evolved over time, as it should, because in some cases, the information out there changed.
Some cases, I got educated.
So if you had asked me as an undergraduate and even as a graduate student,
Um, do I believe that persons with obesity eat more calories on average than persons without obesity?
I would say surprisingly, no, they don't.
Um, and if you said, David, this doesn't make sense, you know, they're bigger, they must eat more calories.
I would have said, well, I'm sorry, you must be a bigot because, you know, that's not what the data show.
And I can show you dozens of studies of people who over and over report that they eat less when that among obese people, they report eating less than non-obese people.
I can show you that parents of obese children report that their children eat less.
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