Obesity research confirms long-term weight loss almost impossible
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#2This is terrible reporting. I couldn't find a single specific study referenced in this article. Another example of the media obfuscating science. Only opinion articles by epidemiologists who seem to have a hankering for pursing non-causal science.
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#3This is confusing...if you only eat X calories per day and exercise, you will lose weight, and permanently (assuming you don't give up), is this more of a mental thing they're talking about?
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#4I'm fairly certain if anyone loses weight and makes sure that they consume only as many calories as they need, their weight will stay down.
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#5This is confusing...if you only eat X calories per day and exercise, you will lose weight, and permanently (assuming you don't give up), is this more of a mental thing they're talking about?
And if you stop smoking crack, you're cured of addiction! It is saying that we don't have any reliable way for an obese individual to restrict their diet to X calories per day other than bariatric surgery.
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#6As with many other addiction based ailments, you aren't cured from obesity, you are simply in remission. As the cure for alcoholism is essentially to Just Stop (tm) being an alcoholic, so the cure for obesity is to esentially Just Stop (tm) being obese.
I'm sorry, there is no easy path. It's all up to you. Deal with it.
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#7This is confusing...if you only eat X calories per day and exercise, you will lose weight, and permanently (assuming you don't give up), is this more of a mental thing they're talking about?
And if you stop smoking crack, you're cured of addiction! It is saying that we don't have any reliable way for an obese individual to restrict their diet to X calories per day other than bariatric surgery.
Okay, so, in the same vein then: "Crack research confirms long-term crack smoking prevention almost impossible". Sounds kinda off, no? It's a mental thing, and by mental, I don't mean "It's all in your head", I mean "It's (literally) all in your head".
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#8I think I finally get why people actually want to live on Soylent. It's the "abstention" cure for food addiction.
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#9You have to change who you are, then you will move towards the equilibrium weight of that new person.
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#10This is confusing...if you only eat X calories per day and exercise, you will lose weight, and permanently (assuming you don't give up), is this more of a mental thing they're talking about?
And if you stop smoking crack, you're cured of addiction! It is saying that we don't have any reliable way for an obese individual to restrict their diet to X calories per day other than bariatric surgery.
No, the study is saying that there is no reliable way (within the norms of modern western society) a third party can convince an obese individual to put down the fork.
It says nothing about whether an obese individual will lose weight if they do choose to eat less. Clearly they can - gravity is not causing food to fly into their mouth whether they want it or not.