Obesity Causation v2.0

Warning! Tin foil hat article that doesn't belong at HN.

Grant's writings are conspiratorial, quack-ish, medically untrained, offering simple explanations for complex problems, demonising one compound, implying or stating medical and research fraud and incompetence ... and I love them.

I would put some money on there being something to what he's saying, even if he's not all right.

And I would like to see more HN discussion that isn't just dull cynical sneering of who can laugh hardest at the most obvious logical flaws. We can all laugh at Javascript and PHP warts but there's no question that there's more to them than flaws. Years after "No wifi, less space than a Nomad, lame" and "I could build DropBox in a weekend with rsync" those kind of takes are still all anyone wants to say about underdog, left-field ideas.

Vitmain A:

- is naturally in foods

- is added to more foods to 'fortify' them

- is toxic in high doses

- "high doses" are fairly low over the RDA

- it doesn't take much food to get over the RDA, every day

- it bioaccumulates

- people are taking in more than the RDA, every day, for years

- people are getting ill with unexplained, incurable, diseases

- Grant offers explanations - many diseases are intricate, long term retinoic acid damage, and its many consequences.

- Anecdotally there are people who followed his ideas and their incurable diseases cured themselves.