It's important to realize that saying it's not a "calorie problem" is not the same as saying "it has nothing to do with calories".
It's saying it's the wrong place to try to find a leverage point for defeating it.
What Taubes is claiming is that talking about calories to someone who is obese doesn't help them. Like Nicholson's character says in "As Good As It Gets", it's like describing the water to someone who is drowning: it's information that is true, but doesn't solve their problem.
It's saying it's the wrong place to try to find a leverage point for defeating it.
What Taubes is claiming is that talking about calories to someone who is obese doesn't help them. Like Nicholson's character says in "As Good As It Gets", it's like describing the water to someone who is drowning: it's information that is true, but doesn't solve their problem.