Agreed, but a lot of this is just arguing over what "diet" means. Short-term dietary changes (sometimes just called "diets") do not work -- at least not for a

Agreed, but a lot of this is just arguing over what "diet" means. Short-term dietary changes (sometimes just called "diets") do not work -- at least not for a long time. Long-term dietary changes (i.e. changes to your "diet") work for a long time.