“We need to create a nutrition culture’: Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Viktor Tutelyan: root cause of excess body weight is an incorrect approach to nutrition.
A genetic predisposition to gaining excess weight plays a small role in this case. The eating traditions that have developed in the family are much more important, the specialist explained. The level of daily physical activity has sharply decreased, and food has become more accessible, he says. The problem is that the energy expenditure of modern man has decreased.