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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who are confused.

The current message is “Eating healthy food and exercising make you healthy and leads to weight loss. If it doesn’t, you’re doing it wrong and need to try harder.”

The better message, and what we’re thankfully moving toward, is “Eating healthy food and exercising are great for your mobility and mental, cardiovascular and metabolic health. Keep doing it, even if it doesn’t lead to weight loss or maintenance. We have other tools that are better for weight loss if that’s what your goal is.”

[b]No one is saying “Eating healthy food and exercising is stupid and pointless since it doesn’t help you lose weight long term. Try Ozempic instead.”[/quote][/b]

But this is the message people will hear, and want to hear.[/quote]

Now you're just moving the goalposts. You'll agree no one is saying it, but now people are hearing it anyway.

If they are, then there's nothing we can do about it, so I don't know what your point is.[/quote]

1. The first (current) message is accurate for many people.  They do need to try harder, sorry.

2. The second message is half right, but for many people, weight loss is the main goal of eating healthy and exercising.  The second half of the message, that "other tools are better" is what is being debated.  I think healthy food and exercise are still far better than drugs if they work for you.  The problem is that many people, once they hear there is a miracle drug, will abandon their healthy food and exercise efforts.

Is there "nothing we can do about it?"  We can promote the drugs as a last resort when diet and exercise fails.  Not as a solution for chubby middle schoolers, I mean really![/quote]

If diet and exercise is the best option, why is almost 50% of the country obese? [/quote]

Because it is so much easier NOT to eat heathy and exercise.  Our lives are mostly sedentary unless you make a conscious effort to move more.  Unhealthy food takes little or no preparation and tastes great (less work, yea!).  The default for the majority of people revolves around computers, their phone, a job with little to no movement. Much of intake is processed food, takeout, fast food or convenience type foods and large portions.  Shopping for heathy food is a chore.  Preparing heathy food is a chore.  It is no secret that requires “research”.  It is apparent to anyone being honest why there is a huge weight problem in the US and now the world.  [/quote]

I guess we have different definitions of the word "best." In this context, to me best means most effective. To you it means...what you think is the right way, even if it's not effective at all, I guess? Not sure.

Oh well. Luckily what you think doesn't matter and people will have access to the actual best tools, which are GLP-1 medications.[/quote]

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