Yeah, that’s the thing — I am 100% on board with Jeff Novick’s article on “Breaking News!” Most “breaking news” is just entertainment, distraction, or static.
Here we are, and we have decades and decades of GOOD science establishing that people who are given too little food, in a controlled environment, ultimately lose weight. The opposite is also true — animals that are given too much food (like a fois gras duck), invariably gain weight and become heavy. These are established principles that aren’t going to overturned anytime soon. The body of science does not get overturned in a day!
We DO live in the best laboratory there is, and it is not hard at all to notice that when I eat double portions, my weight steadily climbs. Even though I may like to eat twice as much as I currrently eat, my BODY certainly never got the memo not to store excess calories for future use. My body is still on board with those old tired ideas about overconsumption leading to bigger body size.
The good news is, as long as we are armed with accurate info, we can act accordingly. NOT treat ourselves like a fois gras duck. We don’t stuff ourselves, because it doesn’t lead to the results we like for ourselves.
Of course, everyone’s gotta start somewhere, and someone at the beginning stages of getting their health together may very well start from a place of stuffing themselves full of food they don’t need, and eating beyond the point of full. But ideally, that can be a stage, and not become a (faulty) belief system about food.
Those are my thoughts, and I think most of that can be verified through experience, without resorting to experts at all.