The topic of this post is a piece by the BBC in advance of blaming two American men for the obesity epidemic in the world today. So the title comes from that. So Jacques Peretti weighs in with another piece on how Americans sabotaged the world with sugar with: What caused the obesity epidemic in the West? Jacques is pictured at right behind a ginormous platter of food. For a piece blaming sugar, one would think the picture would feature pastries and a Big Gulp, but no, it's bread surrounding what appears to be a bunch of dippy fatty stuffs. Oh ... and we don't just eat too much food, right? In this latest piece of pseudoscience journalism run amok, Peretti focuses heavily on quotes from Lustig. I'll come back to some of the rest of that when I get to critiquing the "science" in Part III of the Skinny on Obesity series. And let's just mention but move on from the most ridiculous statement in that article now shall we?
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