People at obesity conferences are still clueless about their own subject. Here's another example, from the recent European Obesity Summit ( source).
Vanilla donuts? At an obesity conference? In what way is that different from handing out cigarettes at a cancer conference?
The worst thing is that this is par for the course. Most obesity experts are simply clueless about the true causes of obesity. Because a calorie is not a calorie. And eating vanilla donuts is not the same thing as eating broccoli.
Here are a few earlier, even scarier, examples of ignorance:
