BMJ: Governments and international bodies should ditch their obsession with calories and energy expenditure to curb soaring obesity rates, and instead focus on restoring the correct balance of omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids in the food supply chain and diet, urge experts in an editorial in the online journal Open Heart . Nutrition policies based purely on the mismatch between ‘calories in and energy out’ in the belief that all calories are equal, have “failed miserably over the past 30 years,” argue Drs Artemis Simopoulos of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition, and Health, Washington D C, and James DiNicolantonio of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas.
