alt Hacker NewsA person's body mass is nothing more than the combination of what a person eats and what a person does in their life.
The only really effective policy is to inform people that that is the simple, honest truth of every single person, and that the quality of food we eat is important in that equation.
Eat better food, be more active. Yes, it is difficult, especially for us peasants.
But that is science. I hope a miracle drug helps folks preyed upon by the food industry, but side effects of that industry's drugs leave me skeptical of their being lastingly beneficial.
> The only really effective policy is to inform people that that is the simple, honest truth of every single person, and that the quality of food we eat is important in that equation.
It's literally not effective. As in, well-studied, isn't effective.
Again, it's the only guidance one has to go on, personally, so it's fine to hold onto that as an individual navigating the world, but it is emphatically not effective policy.