Diets don’t work, says Dr Giles Yeo who believes we should focus on health not weight. The result is the book Gene Eating, in which Yeo, a geneticist at Cambridge University, explores the science of obesity and why diets don’t work. “An example I give in the book is 100 calories of sugar — the likelihood is you’ll get close to 100 calories out of that. For example, refined carbohydrates are over 95% available — so for every 100 calories, you eat you get over 95 calories. “My meat intake has probably dropped 40% and my weight has gone back to my ‘vegan weight’.

Source: Irish Examiner January 25, 2019 00:03 UTC