Are chemical calories making us fat?

So is it pie in the sky?
Baillie-Hamilton's research is compelling and she presents her arguments clearly and with passion. There is no doubt that too much processed food is bad for us but is that really the answer to our increased girth?

Isn't it simply that we eat more and move less than we used to? As she presents her argument, the constant refrain is that our collective weight gain in the west is 'incomprehensible'. But when you look at the volume of food on sale and the portion sizes in most restaurants it doesn't seem that baffling.

Baillie-Hamilton argues that 'if traditional dieting methods really worked, the fat epidemic should have been stamped out long ago', but what is a traditional diet and who's doing it? There are countless quirky diets that claim you can eat certain foods in abundance and as long as you omit meat/wheat/dairy/carbohydrates/fruit/sugar you'll lose weight.

Even if they seem successful in the short term, frustrated dieters tend to regain the weight they lost, plus extra. Although many of the ideas put forward in Detox are worth thinking about, an eating plan that limits so many common foods and recommends a daily dose of clay is reminiscent of just another faddy diet.

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