WHY CALORIES DON’T COUNT

DR GILES YEO

A geneticist with two decades’ experience studying obesity, Yeo is based at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Why Calories Don’t Count and Gene Eating.

Men’s Health: A reduced-calorie diet is generally considered the key to weight loss. But you argue that most diets fail. Why?

In a sense, the majority of diets work. They get people to eat less, which means they lose weight. The problem is keeping weight off. The way we’re set up evolutionarily is that the brain hates it