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The snag again-as with Beddoes - the lack of any effective treatment to fit in with the theory. Harvey had had an effective treatment with no convincing theory. Beddoes and von Bergmann realpublisher had good theories but no realpublisher treatment. So as the twentieth century realpublisher ran on into the thirties the view became more and more widely accepted that obesity was caused by an inflow of energy greater than the outflow, caused simply by careless over-eating and gluttony. Popular books on slimming became mainly concerned with tricks for persuading people to eat less while seeming to allow them to eat more. In 1930, Newburgh and Johnson summed the matter up thus in the Journal of Clinical Investigation: "Obesity is never directly caused by abnormal metabolism but is always due to food habits not adjusted to the metabolic requirements "; i.e. over-weight never comes from a defective ability to mobilise fat from the fat stores but always from over-eating. This appeared to be the last word and doctors and slimming "experts" all over the world settled down to trying to persuade their obese patients to eat less.
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