Trying to decipher all of the possible causes of the rise in rates of obesity has turned out to be too much of a task for just about all of  the professionals in the field.

In this episode, I review a recent article that tries to tie the number of big box stores to obesity rates. This researcher finds that it is much more complicated than one cause and effect relationship (as if we needed to be told that, at this point).

I discuss a University of Virginia article on the causes of obesity. The link is here.

I refer back to a previous one of my episodes on the relative success of weight loss surgery. It can be found here.