Questions to Ask
We have divided the questions into two groups. The first group focuses on content. The second group contains challenge questions. Feel free to pull from both sections and to add you own questions or follow-ups.
Content Questions:
• What lead you to write The Great Fat Fraud?
• We spend about $60 billion a year on weight loss products and services. Yet according to government statistics, weight levels keep creeping up. How come?
• Are you saying that the Weight Loss Industry is built on short term success and long term failure?
• Can a heavy person really be healthier than a thin person?
• Can a person lose weight without dieting if they exercise enough?
• Why do people who yo-yo diet often end up weighing more than they did before they started dieting?
• Is there any way to keep weight off after a diet?
• How is it possible to burn 500 calories a day without exercise?
• You talk in the book about “Researchaganda.” What is “Researchaganda?”
• Why have weight loss drugs been such a disaster when in so many other areas the pharmaceutical industry has produced excellent results?
• You are pretty negative toward bariatric surgery (which you call hari-kari surgery). Why?
• Do you think that weight loss programs work or are they frauds too?
• Where did the title of the book The Great Fat Fraud come from?
• How can people join the conversation?
• Where can people get a copy of The Great Fat Fraud?
• If you could give people just one piece of advice, what would it be?
Challenge questions:
The earth goes around the sun. However, back in 1615, there were massive, vested interests that bitterly opposed that idea. But the earth really does go around the sun and Galileo had the rock solid research to prove it.
Fat is not a disease and the “Obesity Epidemic” emperor has no clothes. Of course, the massive, $60 billion diet and weight loss industry bitterly opposes such heresy. But fat really is not a disease, there really is no “Obesity Epidemic,” and Mike has the rock solid research to prove it.
Below are some of the questions that your listeners/viewers/readers may well be asking themselves, so fire away (and feel free to add your own questions).
• There are all these health experts and scientists and government officials constantly sounding the alarm about the “Obesity Epidemic” and its terrible health consequences. Are you saying that all these people are wrong? How could that be?
• But the statistics seem to show that death rates from all causes [all cause mortality] do go up as weight increases. Are those statistics wrong too?
• Are you saying that this is all some kind of conspiracy?
• What makes you the expert in the whole area? Why should people listen to you?
• Are you saying that nobody should ever go on a diet?
• Are you saying that no diets work?
• Do you practice what you preach?
• How did you come to care so much about this subject?