> This is magical thinking. It's experimentally validated. Calhoun ran it multiple times. Animals don't bounce back. This isn't moose populations crashing beca

> This is magical thinking. It's experimentally validated. Calhoun ran it multiple times. Animals don't bounce back. This isn't moose populations crashing because of overfeeding and starvation. > Turns out that the vast majority of people reach a comfortable weight, and stop dieting. Which is where the analogy diverges from reality. Cultured populations don't reach a comfortable weight... they become "depressed from the hunger", and decide to go for broke.