Many obesity researchers find Guyenet to be quite the joke. For example, Peter over at HyperLipid recently ripped him to utter shreds: http://high-fat-nutriti

Many obesity researchers find Guyenet to be quite the joke. For example, Peter over at HyperLipid recently ripped him to utter shreds: http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2012/06/confused.html http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2012/06/confused.html http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2012/06/insulin-un-dead-and-coffin-nails.html http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2012/06/insulin-un-de... Not to mention, Taubes countered Guyenet with a 6-part series refuting Guyenet's widely mocked food-reward/palatability hypothesis: http://garytaubes.com/2011/09/catching-up-on-lost-time-ancestral-health-symposium-food-reward-palatability-insulin-signaling-carbohydrates-kettles-pots-other-odds-ends-part-i/ http://garytaubes.com/2011/09/catching-up-on-lost-time-ances... The thing is, there's a lot of infighting; These guys are always going back and forth. They both have their camps. Those both have their arsenal of studies. It's almost a sport... The simple fact of the matter is that we're not really going to actually know conclusively and incontrovertibly one way or the other for at least another decade.