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The only thing you need to beat obesity is exercise and reduced caloric intake. The idea that entire companies can be started to wrap that fact in a neat littl
by ecf 5y ago
The only thing you need to beat obesity is exercise and reduced caloric intake.
The idea that entire companies can be started to wrap that fact in a neat little package for people makes me depressed.
> It leads to an average 15% decrease in body weight, efficacy close to bariatric surgery [3]. However, medication-assisted treatment for obesity is still stigmatized by family doctors and therefore hard to access.
This won’t lead to a healthier society, it will lead to a more wasteful and consumeristic one.
- rich-cartwright 5y agoThis is the same ineffective trope said repeatedly without grounding in practical solutions which help real people get to a healthier weight.