> Aubrey Gordon has extensively studied diet and weight loss trends that suggest fat people can become skinny people, and has done an incredible job documenting

> Aubrey Gordon has extensively studied diet and weight loss trends that suggest fat people can become skinny people, and has done an incredible job documenting the ways in which these schemes fail to achieve results for most people. I broadly agree; current advice isn't working, and we shouldn't shame people for following bad advice and failing to achieve results. But that doesn't mean we should throw our hands up and ignore the problem either. Obesity is strongly linked to a host of health issues like diabetes and heart disease, it's an urgent problem to fix. At a societal level, we need more and more varied scientific research to find the causes of the crisis At the personal level, it can be worthwile to keep trying different lifestyle changes; if you do eventually find something that works for you, you'll live a longer and healthier life. (Addendum: everyone's metabolism is different. Something is causing the rise in obesity, but that something may affect you differently than other people. And maybe you would have had an unusually high weight naturally, even without the something.)