alt Hacker NewsSame for diet and exercise.
They'll use flawed research to claim diet and exercise don't work for obesity, then the general public uses that research and claims, "Diet doesn't work for fat people."
Soon, everyone is convinced every guy with a trivial amount of weight to lose needs to be on GLP-1s.
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paxy • today at 3:36 PM
> They'll use flawed research to claim diet and exercise don't work for obesity
Who is "they"? Who is saying this?
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JediWing • today at 7:02 PM
You realize that's a colloquial way of saying that white knuckling through diets has a major adherence problem, right?
thinkingtoilet • today at 3:13 PM
I've never ever heard anyone say diet and exercise don't work. Is this something a real person has said to you in real life? Not on the internet?
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This is always the most boring part of any health thread. Both sides of this have airtight arguments. The diet/exercise people will talk about thermodynamics, and the "it's more complicated" people will talk about epidemiology and the fact that "diet/exercise" hasn't worked as a population-level intervention at any point in modern memory. It's a classic axioms vs. empirics battle and it will never go anywhere useful.