Why We Get Fat?

Many of us have struggled with dieting and weight loss during various phases of our life. Over decades, there have been confusing and conflicting information on what is causing us to be fat and obese.

Gary Taubes, acclaimed science writer and author of “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.” and currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, spoke about his book at Google, Mountain View.

He went in depth on how the public has been exposed for the last century to bad science on why we are fat. Listen to the video below on the truth about the obesity epidemic.