How Not to Diet

by Michael Greger

Leanwashing is the term used to describe companies that try to position themselves as helping to solve the obesity crisis when, instead, they’re directly contributing to it.35

The battle of the bulge is a battle against biology, so obesity is not some moral failing. I can’t stress enough that becoming overweight is a normal, natural response to the abnormal, unnatural ubiquity of calorie-dense, sugary, and fatty foods.

Simply by avoiding canned and processed foods, the highest BPA levels dropped 76 percent within three days.1096

Diets high in meat and dairy can sometimes contain up to four times the Environmental Protection Agency’s recommended daily phthalate safety limit.1107