Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Brillat-Savarin interviewed about 500 people struggling with weight and linked obesity to foods such as potatoes, bread, pasta, and rice. Brillat-Savarin published The Physiology of Taste in 1825. Brillat-Savarin did not treat sugar as a m…
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Brillat-Savarin interviewed about 500 people struggling with weight and linked obesity to foods such as potatoes, bread, pasta, and rice. Brillat-Savarin published The Physiology of Taste in 1825. Brillat-Savarin did not treat sugar as a major independent problem because sugar was scarce and expensive in his era. Brillat-Savarin concluded that avoiding grains and flour-based foods was a remedy for excess weight.