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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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’s hard to implement at an individual level. People need to be facilitated by their environment. But honestly, most of the people that I know are not obese. [/quote]

Soooo … [b]we should rely on methods that are proven and well-documented failures at a societal level[/b] because your small little world doesn’t include a lot of fat people?

Well, that is one take, I guess.

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I’m not saying that. I pointed out that it doesn’t work for many individuals. But there are many people who are able to maintain their weight, so it’s not like a lost cause.[/quote]

Are you under the impression that due to the existence of Ozempic, etc, that diet and exercise will be outlawed or something? [/quote]

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