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The source of the "all obesity is due to gluttony" paradigm?

https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/13/how-a-fatally-tragically-flawed-paradigm-has-derailed-the-science-of-obesity/

This claims a study (of half a dozen obese people, and one control) by Newburgh in 1932 laid the blame for obesity solely on gluttony, rather than endocrine imbalance. If Newburgh can in fact lay claim to having "settled" that issue back in 1932, that makes him one of the most influential researchers in the field of health. Also a prime example of egregiously bad experimental design, and likely a significant contributorto the current rates of type II diabetes in the modern world...