Robert Lustig: The focus on calories is our biggest problem, and we need to change that approach!
The speaker (presented as [SPEAKER A]) argues that the prevailing focus on calories and the simple energy-balance model (calories in vs. calories out) is misguided and socially harmful. He frames obesity as wrongly attributed to personal failings (gluttony and sloth), criticizes the food industry's defense of calories as fungible, and calls for rejecting the calorie-centric model — invoking George Box's maxim that all models are wrong to question the model's usefulness.
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