> just advising to stop eating Generally, doctors do in fact do this, and it is incredibly ineffective, which is why they also treat the symptoms. The reasons

> just advising to stop eating Generally, doctors do in fact do this, and it is incredibly ineffective, which is why they also treat the symptoms. The reasons it is ineffective are deep rooted in human psychology, support networks, and our conceptions of free will vs environmental effects. It is difficult to impossible for a person to simply "stop eating as much" for exactly the same reasons it is difficult for somebody to "just" exersize regularly or "just" look after their body or "just" study hard. We simply do not have as much control over our own fate as we like to think.