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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who is significantly overweight will have spend the rest of their life fighting their body to retain their set point weight. Like, significant mental energy dedicated to it every single day. Most people simply aren’t capable of it. Without bariatric surgery or lifelong medication to treat it is statistically nearly impossible. The new GLP-1 drugs (semaglutide) are quite promising but they will need to be taken forever.

For those who are obese and overweight already the focus for individuals needs to be on improving health and mobility regardless of body habitus with diet and exercise, and treating obesity with surgery and/or medication.

We need to figure out on a population level what is making us obese. The truth is we just don’t know. [/quote]

Well, it is very complicated, but I would not go as far to say “we just don’t know”. From what I understand, when obese people are put on verifiable healthy but strict diets, (either institutionalized or rigorously monitored in regards to their food intake) they do lose weight essentially all of the time. Of course that is not a realistic or repeatable solution for obesity problems at a societal level. While I agree that “we just don’t know” a good solution, I believe that we do know the culprit for the vast majority of cases.[/quote]

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